Jean Ziegler

<p>Jean Ziegler (French: [ziglɛʁ]; born Hans Ziegler, 19 April 1934) is a Swiss former professor of <a href="/facts/Sociology/d2Fd0N87">sociology</a> at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Geneva/qXnRaoK5">University of Geneva</a> and the <a href="/facts/University_of_Paris/yXAx8nlG">Sorbonne</a>, Paris, and former vice-president of the Advisory Committee to the <a href="/facts/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council/JRGJgtSc">United Nations Human Rights Council</a>. He was previously Member of the <a href="/facts/Federal_Assembly_of_Switzerland/WqDqFfwY">Swiss Parliament</a> for the <a href="/facts/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Switzerland/XsqFcLLV">Social Democrats</a> from 1981 to 1999. He has also held several positions with the <a href="/facts/United_Nations/fgXLnmgT">United Nations</a>, especially as <a href="/facts/Special_Rapporteur_on_the_Right_to_Food/4B7zP0wH">Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food</a> from 2000 to 2008, and as a member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council from 2008 to 2012. Ziegler has authored numerous works, is a lecturer, and is well known for this sentence: "A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child."
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Jean Ziegler