The mystery of memory Interview with Jean Ziegler, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Member of the UN Human Rights Council’s Advisory Committee, and author of the new bestselling book “La Haine de l’Occident” (“The Hatred of the West”), Paris, 2008
Jean Ziegler is a man of many facets. Although most of us know him for his outspoken and forthright words denouncing human rights violations and other unfair treatment, either in his capacity as former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food or as a Member of the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council, we should not forget that he is also a celebrated social scientist and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Universities of Geneva and Paris….
