Conflict & The Right to Food – SR Report

37. Regarding discrimination against rural and Indigenous women and girls, general recommendations No. 34 (2016) and No. 39 (2022) of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women respectively provide detailed, comprehensive, systemic and rights-based recommendations. They explicitly recognize the right to food and nutrition in the context of food sovereignty to ensure that women and girls have the authority to manage and control their natural resources. This implicitly addresses the discrimination and social and political configurations around power over food that particularly affect rural and Indigenous women and girls.48 Similarly, women workers in food systems tend to be paid less than men, often work seasonal, part-time

38. Members of the LGBTQ+ community face structural barriers, including discrimination by food and service providers, lack of family and community support, and stigma and fear. Numerous reports confirm that gender-based discrimination denies millions of people access to food and to means and entitlements for its procurement if they are not cisgendered. In some countries, during the pandemic, food shopping days specifically for men and women or separate procedures and modalities for receiving food packages, based on gender, were put in place. These policies led to, in different instances, the exclusion, abuse, stigmatization and arrest of transgender and non-binary people.

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Conflict & The Right to Food – SR Report