ABSTRACT
The report and its recommendations were well received by national civil society organizations such as Food Secure Canada and Canada without Poverty as well as provincial and local human rights and advocacy groups. The report certainly presented an opportunity for public and political dialogue yet one at that time which faced considerable challenge. The good news is that if governments wish to reset their moral compass, there is plenty of expert advice and support on hand. United Nations (UN) human rights conventions and protocols such as the International Covenant Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Optional Protocol-Economic, Social and Cultural Rights safeguard the right to food. They provide a framework of rights-based international law requiring the compliance of State Parties in taking action to eliminate domestic hunger. The UN Human Rights Council and its secretariat the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is the principal UN office mandated to promote and protect human rights throughout the world.
