The UN rights chief on September 11 blamed Russia's withdrawal from the Black Sea grain deal as well as its alleged attacks on agricultural facilities for higher food prices that have been particularly damaging in the Horn of Africa. "The Russian Federation's withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative in July, and attacks on grain facilities in Odesa and elsewhere, have again forced prices sky-high in many developing countries -- taking the right to food far out of reach for many people," Volker Turk said at the opening of the Human Rights Council session in Geneva, referring specifically to high malnutrition rates in Somalia. To read the original story by Reuters, click here.
UN Rights Chief Criticizes Russia For Quitting Black Sea Grain Deal
Farmers harvest wheat in the settlement of Nedvigovka in the southern Russian Rostov region on July 18.