FAO has launched a Free Online Course on Consumer Organizations and the Right to Adequate Food. Certificate will be provided after the completion of the Course.
The course explains human rights concepts and provides tools for consumer organizations as key stakeholders, to support their communication, campaigns, advocacy and policy dialogue and to help bring awareness of human rights closer to consumers.
This course addresses the subject matter from a technical perspective but is written for the general public. It is primarily intended for:
The course provides a quick introduction to human rights and the human rights-based approach, as they relate to consumer organizations. Subsequent sections describe some of the areas of action for community organizations that can benefit from a human rights-based approach, specifically:
This course runs on the latest versions of the major browsers, such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari.
The course opens in a separate popup window. If this does not happen, a popup blocker in the browser is probably preventing it from opening and you will need to disable popup blockers for this site. Please read the following instructions on how to do this.
Interested participants can register through this link.
There is no deadline for registration.
