The UK Right to Food Campaign: Origins, Progress, Prospects and Lessons for Australia

This webinar is a unique opportunity for an Australian audience to hear about the emergence and progress of this inspiring campaign and draw lessons for building a similar movement to end food poverty in Australia. We invite anti-poverty and social justice campaigners, trade unions, journalists, political leaders and everyone who shares the vision and goal of a decent, fair future for all to attend.

The webinar will feature two special guests: Dr Sharon Noonan-Gunning and Ian Byrne MP.

Dignified access to good food for all people at all times, regardless of social or economic status, is a fundamental human right. It was first set out in the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and then specified in detail in the 1966 UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Yet for far too many people, in Australia, the UK and around the world, this basic right seems like a distant promise, as the cost of living crisis crushes family budgets and pushes more households into food poverty.

In the UK, a powerful campaign has emerged from the grassroots and the football terraces to start tackling the causes of food poverty and eradicate it permanently by enshrining the human right to good food in UK law and ensuring that this law is implemented and enforced. The Right to Food Campaign begins from the premise that food poverty and hunger are not ‘natural’ phenomena that we should simply accept, but rather are matters of political choice. The Campaign has won the support of a growing number of major cities which have declared themselves to be a ‘Right to Food City. It has received the backing of major football clubs, trade unions, businesses, charities and faith leaders.

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