Bourke-Martignoni, Joanna. 2020. The Right to Food. In Research Handbook on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights. (Eds) Jackie Dugard, Bruce Porter, Daniela Ikawa and Lilian Chenwi. 138-159. Edward Elgar Publishing. This chapter discusses the historical development and content of international, regional and a selection of national frameworks on the human right to…
This brief summarises a number of findings from the DEMETER project, focusing on the social, cultural, and economic outcomes of commercialisation and on the ways in which these affect the rights to food, land, decent work and social security. Adu Ankrah, Daniel, Anna Antwi, Peter Atupare, Marta Awo, Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Fred Dzanku, Promise Eweh,…
The whole team would like to congratulate DEMETER doctoral candidates Saba Joshi (Graduate Institute, left) and Dzifa Torvikey (University of Ghana, right) for brilliantly defending their PhD theses in June 2020. We would like to thank them for their wonderful contribution to our research and wish them all the very best for the next phase…
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…
A scaling-up workshop of the project Demeter takes place from the 4th to the 7th of June in Addis Ababa. Team members will discuss the publications of Demeter, seek to create dialogue with scholars in Ethiopia, communicate with international and national stakeholders and plan forthcoming project activities. A public event is organized by Demeter on the…
In this research brief, Saba Joshi discusses the gendered impacts of land commercialization in Cambodia. Based on qualitative interviews conducted during multiple field visits in 2015 and 2016 in Ratanakiri, Kratié and Kampong Thom, she shows how commercialization affects women’s access to the land and the commons, gender division of labour, violence against women in three…
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…
