Fact or Fiction on Conflict & Hunger: Exploring…

• 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 ensuring compliance with established legal frameworks. This event allows for an interactive experience between participants and briefers in the mutual exploration of several drivers, impacts and tools related to conflict-induced hunger.

This event is co-organized by Guyana, Slovenia and Coalition Against Conflict & Hunger, and co-sponsored by the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ireland, Kuwait, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Sierra Leone, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme.