Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak is the founder of India’s Sulabh International Social Service Organisation and the Sulabh Sanitation and Social Reform Movement.

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Action Sociologist, social reformer and international expert on low-cost sanitation, public conveniences, biogas from human excreta and rural development, Dr. Pathak has worked for the last four decades to improve sanitation in the poorest regions of India.

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Dr. Pathak is the 2009 Stockholm Water Prize laureate.

Sociologist, writer, head of the Emmaus community in Geneva, renowned politician in Switzerland, where he was born and has lived until now, senior professor at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne in Paris, France.

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Dr. Jean Ziegler has written several books on food and hunger in the world. He was the Special Reporter of the United Nations on the Rights to Food from 2000 till March 2008. In this role, he reported on the situation of hunger and malnutrition in many countries including Nigeria, Ethiopia, India, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Brazil, Palestine and Guatemala, among others.

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He is presently a member of the Consultative Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Commission.