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framework laws that provides an appropriate institutional structure; and sectoral
legislation addressing various sectors that impact significantly on levels of food
security in this regard;
(d)
Provide mechanisms that offer adequate, effective and timely remedies
in cases of violations of the right to food, in particular to groups such as communities
living in remote rural areas, communities living in situations of extreme poverty,
persons with disabilities and indigenous communities, either through collective or
public interest remedies;
(e)
Ensure the empowerment of women by guaranteeing their basic right to
access adequate food and take steps to implement gender-mainstreaming in relation to
domestic policies on agricultural, property and inheritance rights;
(f)
Ensure that everyone, without discrimination, is afforded access to social
protection as a means of offering economic, social, and cultural rights;
(g)
Cooperate with civil society organizations to organize training
programmes for rights holders and duty bearers in order to operationalize the
justiciability of the right to food;
(h)
Develop awareness-raising campaigns to ensure that rights holders have
access to information pertaining to the right to food and the obligations pertaining
thereto;
(i)
Ensure policy coherence when implementing national food strategies,
paying particular attention to the correlation between trade and investment policies,
and economic development plans;
(j)
Develop the necessary legal structure in order to protect resources
directly related to the right to access adequate and nutritious food, such as water
sources, access to land and seed production;
(k)
Enable further clarification on States’ extraterritorial obligations in
relation to non-regulatory means; identify best practices regarding cooperation
between States; and adopt within the Human Rights Council a resolution to draw
attention to the Maastricht Principles;
(l)
Consider requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of
Justice to determine the legal obligations relating to the extraterritorial
implementation of the right to food.
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