Hilal Elver is a global leader and expert in international human rights law and international environmental law.
From May 2014 to April 2020, Elver served as the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, responsible for carrying out the聽聽as prescribed by the United Nations Human Rights Council. She is currently serving as an appointed member of the Steering Committee of the聽聽(HLPE) on food security and nutrition and maintains several affiliations with聽听飞辞谤濒诲飞颈诲别.听
In addition to being one of the foremost independent experts on the human right to food, Hilal Elver has cultivated a dynamic portfolio career working with several international institutions, national governments, and local NGOs, and contributing to the academic community at large.
She worked with the Turkish government as the Founding Legal Advisor of Turkey鈥檚 Ministry of Environment from 1989 to 1991; the Director of the Environmental Law and Human Rights Committee of the EU Harmonization Committee: Office of the Prime Minister and State Planning Organization from 1989 to 1999; and member and legal advisor of Turkey鈥檚 team UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), from 2009- 2014). Hilal Elver has continued to strengthen her contributions to Turkey鈥檚 environmental and food-focused policy agenda in recent years.
Following her appointment as Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver has maintained her high standing in the international community, serving as a 鈥淐hampion鈥� for the UN Food Systems Summit 2021, and informing the direction of the聽聽through her HLPE appointment.
Hilal Elver regularly advocates for human rights-based approaches to food system challenges and uses her platform to highlight the intersectionality of climate change, humanitarian assistance, gender, nutrition, food crises, famine, the Sustainable Development Goals, food system workers, fisheries, and corporate capture鈥搃ssues that she regularly addressed in her聽.
She has authored/edited several books, including聽听(2002);听(2012); and聽聽(ed. w/ Paul Wapner) (2016).
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