A/HRC/7/5 page 6 worldwide on 16 October 2007 was dedicated to the theme of the right to food. Activities to promote the right to food were organized in over 150 countries. On this occasion, the Special Rapporteur participated in events staged in Brussels, Bonn, Bern and Geneva. 8. At the same time, the Special Rapporteur has also continued to follow the important work of NGOs around the world to promote respect for the right to food. In particular, he would like to underscore the efforts made by Foodfirst Information and Action Network (FIAN) and ActionAid. These organizations have launched two international campaigns on the right to food in 2007: Face It Act Now, a three-year campaign by FIAN targeting European governments, and Hunger Free, a five-year campaign by ActionAid to promote the right to food worldwide. 9. In this final report to the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur briefly presents some of the most recent developments with respect to the right to food. He then recalls the definition of the right to food and State obligations. The report addresses six main topics: the schizophrenia in the United Nations system and in States’ policies; the exclusion and discrimination that exists in relation to the right to food, especially in relation to women and indigenous people; refugees from hunger; the impact of new powerful non-State actors such as transnational corporations (TNCs); desertification; and biofuels. Finally, the report addresses the areas that should give us some hope: the Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security (hereafter the Right to Food Guidelines) adopted by the FAO Council in November 2004; the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights being negotiated in the Human Rights Council; the progress in justiciability of the right to food at the national level; global commitments to fight hunger; and the work of States and civil society to promote the issue of food sovereignty. I. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS WITH RESPECT TO THE RIGHT TO FOOD A. Positive developments 10. The Special Rapporteur has followed important legislative developments for the protection of the right to food in many countries, including through his country missions to Brazil, India, Guatemala, and Bolivia. Honduras 11. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the forward-looking initiatives that have been taken by the Government of Honduras in cooperation with civil society. In particular, he welcomes the various awareness-raising programmes on forced land evictions and the right to food, organized by the Special Office on Human Rights of the Prosecutor’s Office, with the participation of police officers, prosecutors and officers of the National Agrarian Institute (INA). The Special Rapporteur also welcomes the proposal for a Protocol on forced land evictions and the right to food that was submitted to the Supreme Court in August 2007 by civil society organizations as well as the drafting by such organizations of a law on the right to food and food security, presented to Congress on 16 October 2007. He urges the Court and the Parliament promptly to adopt these important instruments.