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Waiting to Credit Marvels

on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

Tag: right to food

Right to food lost in Oxfam campaign

Throughout Oxfam’s new GROW campaign on global hunger the right to food is presumed rather than reiterated.

Published June 6, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged advocacy, hunger, right to food

Second helping for De Schutter

Excellent news that Olivier De Schutter has agreed to renew his mandate as UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.

Published May 2, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged right to food
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A blog by Bill Gunyon

Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things