Food Waste Violates Human Rights: A Decision from Pakistan

In 2019, the Lahore High Court in Pakistan declared that the government’s inaction in implementing laws and policies to mitigate food loss and waste violated the Constitutional right to food. Join us as we hear from a petitioner in the case, Hafsa Ahmad (LLM ’24); the barrister who argued the case, Muhammad Ahmad Pansota; and The Honorable Justice Jawad Hassan of the Lahore High Court, as we learn about this seminal case that tied government action in reducing food loss and waste to the right to food.