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The Campaign

60 years existence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is exactly the right occasion to reinforce the principle of indivisibility of human rights and strengthen the economic, social and cultural human rights.
On October 16, 2007 - World Food Day - the European campaign Face It-Act Now will be launched. Call for Action

All over the world people are getting organized to struggle for their rights. National sections from Europe (Germany, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden and Norway) and from Brazil, Ghana and India of the human rights organisation FIAN International, together with the Hungarian rural development foundation Gaia Alapítvány and other counterparts join efforts in the campaign Face It Act Now – Fighting hunger with human rights.

Face It-Act Now: Face reality now, confront it, challenge it and act now. If you don't do it, nobody will do it. For this year's World Food Day the campaign comes just in time, as this year the World Food Day is officially dedicated by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to the human right to food. It is time to seriously start confronting hunger with human rights.

Here on our website real cases of violations of the human right to food will be documented, follow-ups and Urgent Actions will also be published. Everyone can join in by signing the call for action. And it is not just about signing the call for action but also about actually facing it. You can upload your picture to the website and thus become part of our photo gallery Face It of supporters for the right to food. Namely, hunger has a lot of faces - the right to food over 6 billion.

Face it - this will also be taken literally by the campaign in the form of an exhibition, which will be dedicated to all people whose right to food has been violated and to all people who have become human rights defenders in the countries of the Global South. Some of them have and still do risk their lives for a world free from hunger and discrimination. These people deserve not to be treated as statistics but as human beings with faces and real and heart felt stories.

Be a part of this. Don't lose your face; lend it to the human right to food.