UN Human Rights Council Holds Special Session On World Food Crisis (2/2)

【标准VOA】2008-05-29
UN Human Rights Council Holds Special Session On World Food Crisis (2/2)



 大意
Food crisis is a big problem.

 听写
 Arbour said the current food crisis stems from several factors including distortions in supply and demand and unfair trade policies. She said a failure to respond to the food crisis in a comprehensive way could trigger a domino effect by putting at risk other fundamental rights, including the right to health or to education. “Very few issues speak as forcefully as this one, about individual rights and collective action, and about the intolerable inequalities that affect millions through no fault of their own.” Prices of stapble food such as rice, wheat, corn and oils have more than doubled since March. This has set off riots in some 40 of the world’s poorer countries, where people spend up to 80% of their family incomes on food. The newly appointed special reperteer Rapporteur on the right to food of LOlivier De Schutter, blames much of the food crisis on the cultivation of crops for bio-fuels instead of for food. In his speech to the UN session, he renewed his call for a phase freeze on new investments ion bio-fuels and called upon the United States and Europe to rethink policies which are bad for both the environment and food security.


 生词
distortion歪扭，扭曲
staple大宗出产
rapporteur指定为委员会(或大会)起草报告等的人。


 翻译
好好复习……


 总结
我有预感，要出现变态英语了……
posted @ 2008-05-29 00:01 vivianliv86 阅读(62) 评论(0)  编辑  收藏 所属分类: 每日VOA 网摘收藏

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