Ossining High School to Host UN Speakers

Two United Nations experts on food security will be among those participating in a panel discussion at Ossining High School’s Barnes Library next week.

The discussion, to be held on Dec. 10th from 11:30 a.m. to 12:55 p.m., will feature Mariann Kovacs and David Kimble from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization along with Tarin Gonzalez and Roger Drew from the Food Justice Committee of WESPAC (Westchester Peace and Action Committee).

One in eight people, or nearly one billion people, worldwide go hungry each day because they lack the resources to obtain enough healthy, nutritious food.  Panelists will discuss connections between food security across the globe and food security locally and will take questions from the audience.

From 1 p.m. to 1:40 p.m., there will be a presentation on the ongoing war in Syria with its civilian casualties and resultant refugee crisis. Finally, from 1:45 p.m. until 2:26 p.m., there will be a student debate on the question of whether drone strikes constitute a war crime when carried out by the United States on the territory of another sovereign state.

The discussion will be moderated by Ossining High School social studies teacher Sam North.