Our annual meeting was held in July 2019 in Bangkok. This provided us with an opportunity to reflect on the progress of the research so far, to draw comparisons between our two case study countries and to consider the situation of other countries within the South East Asian region and to engage in outreach with…
Team members Christophe Gironde and Joanna Bourke Martignoni attended an academic meeting on the Future of Food Systems at FAO headquarters in Rome on 10-11 June 2019. They were able to present our DEMETER research and to recall the importance of continuing to integrate a right to food and feminist perspective within food policy-making in…
Dr Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Gender Centre affiliate and coordinator of the DEMETER (Gender, land and the right to food) research project, participated as part of a panel in a side event on “Exploring the economic and social dimensions of the right to life” during the Human Rights Council. The purpose of the discussion was to…
The DEMETER Team in Cambodia at the Center for the Study of Humanitarian Law (CSHL) of the Royal University of Law and Economics organized its 4th annual academic conference on 15 December 2018 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The conference is a platform for researchers to present and share their research findings with the students, faculty…
Joanna Bourke Martignoni. 2019. Engendering the right to food? International human rights law, food security and the rural woman. Transnational Legal Theory. DOI: 10.1080/20414005.2018.1568789 International human rights bodies such as the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and the UN Human Rights Council are…
By Joanna Bourke Martignoni and Elizabeth Umlas. Geneva: Geneva Academy. 2018. The UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights (UNGPs) make a key contribution to the implementation of human rights guarantees through their definition of the concept of human rights due diligence (HRDD), which directs companies to “identify, prevent, mitigate and account for” their…
As part of its week-long research meeting, the DEMETER team held a public event the 6th of June at the UN Economic Commission for Africa which attracted an audience from several regional international organisations, including the African Union as well as a number of specialised agencies, academics from Ethiopia and elsewhere and from civil society.…
This international workshop (23-25 May – Halle/Saale, Germany) was organized by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and McGill University. During this programme, Christophe Gironde presented a paper entitled “Losing land, losing ground? Dispossession and resilience in Northeaster Cambodia”. Since the 1990s, northeaster Cambodia has been undergoing a rapid and radical agrarian transition, driven by…
Demeter team organizes a side event entitled “Agricultural Commercialisation, the Right to Food and Gender Equality: Exploring Linkages” at the UN Commission on the Status of Women NGO Forum. This year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women has as its priority theme “Challenges and Opportunities in Achieving Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Rural…
By Saba Joshi. During my fieldwork in Cambodia, I took part in a project called Davis Projects for Peace. The Davis Project for Peace is an initiative of the Katherine Davis Foundation, which allows students from the Graduate Institute, Geneva to design and implement a grassroots project anywhere in the world. This year, my project…
