This briefing paper is part of “Accountability for Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law,” a joint project of Global Rights Compliance (GRC) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF). The paper was produced by GRC. International advisory firm, Global Rights Compliance, specialises in services associated with bringing accountability for violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
From the introduction:
Every instance of famine or acute food insecurity today is, at its core, man-made. This paper explores the paths to prohibition and accountability for the widespread and systematic death and suffering that it causes worldwide, with a focus on criminal prosecutions. The current scale of suffering and death caused by, or associated with, this crime is unprecedented in recent history. The famine in Yemen alone threatens to be the most severe in living memory. Starvation has a compound effect on international peace and security surpassing the (atrocious) death tolls: mass displacement and social disruption, intergenerational physical and cognitive harm, and severe economic deprivation are only a fraction of the terrible consequences visited upon the unfortunate victims
