Digital Rights Meet Food Rights at WSIS+20. Join our virtual side-event: “Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Digital Age – Spotlight on the Right to Food”
đź“… December 15 | 8:00-9:15 AM ET
As digital technologies reshape our world, their impact on fundamental human rights—especially the right to food—remains largely unaddressed.
The reality: Platform economies, AI systems, and data extraction models are reinforcing unjust socio-economic structures.
For Indigenous Peoples, peasants, women, and workers in food systems, this means: 🚨 Destruction of farmer food systems 🚨Biopiracy & knowledge theft 🚨 Land dispossession through digital means 🚨 Unfair data practices & market manipulation 🚨 Growing corporate control (Big Tech + Big Finance = greater concentration)
But alternatives exist. ✊ A growing movement is proposing governance and technology design rooted in communitarian ethics and human rights. The UN must lead the way.
🎤 Speakers:
Julieta Rossi – UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
Chee Yoke Ling – Executive Director, Third World Network
SofĂa Monsalve Suárez – Senior Advisor, FIAN International
Moderated by Anita Gurumurthy – IT for Change
We’ll explore how digital trade agreements infringe on rights, how new technologies impact food systems, and what alternative visions look like when rights—not profits—drive innovation.
đź”— Register now: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DXmk7m42Qu6I2oQbznoOxA
Organized by Third World Network, FIAN International & IT for Change
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