Fact or Fiction on Conflict & Hunger: Exploring Evidence-based Drivers, Impacts and Tools.
Side Event to the UN Security Council Open Debate on the Protection of Civilians 2025. Opening remarks by Guyana & Slovenia Interactive session with innovative approach introducing the key facts, figures and challenges of conflict-induced hunger Segment 1 - Drivers & Impacts Segment 2 - Tools, Mechanisms & International Humanitarian Law Q & A session and interventions by keynote listeners, including high-level representatives of the co-sponsors Closing remarks This event takes place on the margins of the 2025 Protection of Civilians Week and offers a critical opportunity to reflect upon how parties to conflicts create or perpetuate conflict-induced hunger and explore relevant tools, practical mechanisms, strategies, national legislation and policies and practices available to better protect civilians from conflict-induced hunger. Emphasis will be placed on the role of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in mitigating these impacts and e...