Wikio - Jean Ziegler

UN Adviser Ziegler: US Aims to Sabotage Human Rights Council (Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:08:00 GMT

Jean Ziegler spoke with DW-WORLD.DE about a lack of balance at the Human Rights Council, the role played by the US, and critiques of UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon's leadership style.

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Amnesty International Hosts Qaddafi Booster (View from Geneva)

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:15:41 GMT

Despite our urgent appeal to Amnesty International (AI) Secretary-General Irene Khan, she went ahead and appeared on an AI Switzerland panel with Jean Ziegler, Qaddafi’s chief ally at the UN. Although AI Switzerland’s press summary omits mention of Ziegler, the agenda of the Berne annual meeting shows the April 19, 2008 morning panel of Khan, [...]

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Insurrection of the Famished – Causes and Possible Remedies of the World Hunger Crisis by Siv O'Neall (Circle of 13)

Sun, 04 May 2008 08:07:00 GMT

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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Zimbabwe: British And American Imperialism Causing a Global Food Crisis (All Africa)

Thu, 01 May 2008 09:27:45 GMT

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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Biofuels crime against humanity — UN (Russia News Net)

Thu, 01 May 2008 04:19:21 GMT

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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Diversion of crops for fuel use is “criminal” (Dangerous Intersection)

Thu, 01 May 2008 03:37:45 GMT

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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UN: Ethanol A Crime Against Humanity' (Greenthinkers)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:00:07 GMT

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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Today in World Opinion: US, EU biofuel policy a “criminal path” according to UN Special Rapporteur; anti-speculative legislation proposed (Biofuels Digest)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:02:33 GMT

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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Biofuel Production Criminal: Jean Ziegler (Jennifer Marohasy)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:00:42 GMT

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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UN rapporteur talks about the global food crisis - 28 Apr 08 (Arabic Video News in English)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:04:20 GMT

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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Morning Open Thread: It's the Food, Baby (Air America Radio -)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:59:05 GMT

(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 Second Time as Farce (The Black Kettle)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:23:00 GMT

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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Commies at the United Nations (The Shotgun)

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:32:38 GMT

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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Food price rises ‘mass murder’… (Homeless on the High Desert)

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:14:01 GMT

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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Biofuels and Mitigation/Adaptation (Seeker Blog)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:25:24 GMT

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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Brazilian President Jumps into Food vs. Fuel Debate (Domestic Fuel)

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:07:03 GMT

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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Amnesty International Urged to Withdraw Invitation to Qaddafi Supporter (View from Geneva)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:49:54 GMT

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 [...]

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GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS: Ziegler: biofuel is 'a crime against humanity' (France24)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:55:57 GMT

UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler attacked mass biofuel plantations, calling them 'crime[s] against humanity'. He accuses agro-energy of fueling the present global food crisis.

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Food crisis points to 'imminent massacre,' UN official says (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:35:01 GMT

Paris - The recent crisis sparked by spiralling prices for basic foods such as rice and wheat is only the beginning of a long period of rioting and instability in many parts of the world, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Jean Ziegler said i...

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UN Human Rights Council (Kiwiblog)

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:42:57 GMT

The structural deficiencies of the UN are once again on display, with the recent activities of the UN Human Rights Council. First of all they elected Jean Ziegler to the council’s advisory committee. Ziegler has compared Israeli soldiers to concentration camp guards and lauding a professed Holocaust denier. Even better he, get this, co-founded in 1989 [...]

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