Michael Fakhri

Michael Fakhri is a Canadian lawyer. He is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and an associate professor of Law at the University of Oregon.

Michael Fakhri
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Incumbent
Assumed office May 1, 2020
Personal details
Education	University of Western Ontario (BSc) Queen's University at Kingston (LLB) Harvard University (LLM) University of Toronto (SJD)

Fakhri was appointed to his position as Special Rapporteur by the UN Human Rights Council and assumed his functions on May 1, 2020.^[1] he served as an independent advisor to the UN summit on food systems but was critical of its effectiveness.^[2] Fakhri called on the government of Venezuela to develop a robust plan to address hunger and malnutrition and for an end to the economic sanctions imposed on the country.^[3] He believes that Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza, saying that "In my view as a UN human rights expert, this is now a situation of genocide."^[4]