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Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
From Axis of Logic : In a broadcast interview with Daniel Mermet on French radio*, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler, stated that the current world food crisis is not due to nature, but to man. Introduction to the interview from the web site of 'Là-bas si j'y suis' *: "A return with Jean Ziegler to the causes for food riots that are appearing...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
JEAN Ziegler, a UN "Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food," spoke out against U.S. and European Union energy and trade policies and said these policies are tantamount to going down a "criminal path."
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the right to food Jean Ziegler says massive switch of agriculture to biofuels' production is a crime against humanity which throws millions into poverty.
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Dangerous Intersection (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
The United States and the European Union have taken a “criminal path” by contributing to an explosive rise in global food prices through using food crops to produce biofuels, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food said today.At a press conference in Geneva, Jean Ziegler of Switzerland said that fuel policies pursued [...]
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Greenthinkers (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Yeah, yeah, so it's an inflammatory headline. But that was at least the gist. The real story is here, from Canada.com. The UN official was Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler, who told German radio last Monday...
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Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler, described US and EU biofuels policy as a “criminal path.” The AP reported that a transcript of a briefing to UN leaders, Ziegler said that “fuel policies pursued by the US and the EU were one of the main causes of the current worldwide [...]
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Jennifer Marohasy (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
The United States and the European Union have taken a "criminal path" by contributing to an explosive rise in global food prices through using food crops to produce biofuels, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food said...
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Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
The United Nations is expected to reveal a so-called battle plan to tackle the growing global food crisis. The meeting in Switzerland on Monday comes after a warning from the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Jean Ziegler says biofuels are a crime against humanity. Al Jazeera asked him to give us his personal view [...]
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Air America Radio - (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
(with apologizes to Common ) Echoing the concerns of the World Bank and IMF, the UN issued a warning about the impending food crisis. Moreover, the UN food envoy, Jean Ziegler, called the growing food prices " silent mass murder " (h/t The Agonist , and issued a stern warning about the instability resulting from the price rise: Ziegler said he was bound to highlight the "madness"...
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The Black Kettle (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
by Nile Gardiner, Daily Stanard: IF FURTHER PROOF BE needed of the terminal decline of the United Nations as a world body that purports to advance human rights, look no further than the recent appointments of Richard Falk and Jean Ziegler by the UN's Human Rights Council (HRC). Both appointments should be of major concern to U.S. leaders disturbed by the UN's increasing failure in the...
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The Shotgun (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
As a follow up to my previous post on the glorious socialist revolution of Hugo Chavez, here is "Jean Ziegler, UN special rapporteur on the right to food." In an interview with an Austrian newspaper, Ziegler blamed the West for...
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Homeless on the High Desert (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
Reuters - Global food price rises are leading to “silent mass murder” and commodities markets have brought “horror” to the world, the United Nations’ food envoy told an Austrian newspaper on Sunday. Jean Ziegler, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, told Kurier am Sonntag that growth in biofuels, speculation on commodities markets and European [...]
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Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler told German radio Monday that the production of biofuels is “a crime against humanity” because of its impact on global food prices. Roger Pielke, Jr. examines the mitigation versus adaptation issue, which is peeking out from under the rocks in the EU — where realization of [...]
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Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
After a week of criticism of biofuels that included the U.N. special rapporteur for the right to food, Jean Ziegler calling biofuels a “crime against humanity” and protests in Brazil and Europe, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is defending his country’s right to produce biofuels. This Reuters story has more information: “Don’t tell me, for [...]
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View from Geneva (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Click here to read press release with hyperlinks Geneva, April 16, 2008 — Amnesty International should reconsider its speaking invitation to Jean Ziegler, a UN official who co-founded the Muammar Qaddafi Human Rights Prize and has supported the regimes of Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro and other major human rights violators, said UN Watch, a Geneva-based human [...]
