Methods to Monitor the Human Right to Adequate Food
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Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9789251060667
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Freedom from Want
Author: George Kent
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2005-06-02
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781589013254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is, literally, a world of difference between the statements "Everyone should have adequate food," and "Everyone has the right to adequate food." In George Kent's view, the lofty rhetoric of the first statement will not be fulfilled until we take the second statement seriously. Kent sees hunger as a deeply political problem. Too many people do not have adequate control over local resources and cannot create the circumstances that would allow them to do meaningful, productive work and provide for themselves. The human right to an adequate livelihood, including the human right to adequate food, needs to be implemented worldwide in a systematic way. Freedom from Want makes it clear that feeding people will not solve the problem of hunger, for feeding programs can only be a short-term treatment of a symptom, not a cure. The real solution lies in empowering the poor. Governments, in particular, must ensure that their people face enabling conditions that allow citizens to provide for themselves. In a wider sense, Kent brings an understanding of human rights as a universal system, applicable to all nations on a global scale. If, as Kent argues, everyone has a human right to adequate food, it follows that those who can empower the poor have a duty to see that right implemented, and the obligation to be held morally and legally accountable, for seeing that that right is realized for everyone, everywhere.
The Right to Food
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9789251041772
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Right to Food Methodological Toolbox
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Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9789251060605
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Author: Bård A. Andreassen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2017-05-26
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 178536779X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMethodological discussion has largely been neglected in human rights research, with legal scholars in particular tending to address research methods and methodological reflection implicitly rather than explicitly. This book advances thinking on human rights methodology, offering instruction and guidance on the methodological options for human rights research.
Methods to Monitor the Human Right to Adequate Food: Making the case for rights-focused and rights-based monitoring
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Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMONITORING FRAMEWORK FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF HUMAN RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD IN NEPAL
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9251098506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe publication presents the way to undertake a contextual interpretation of the international normative standards on the Human Right to Adequate Food in Nepal, including how relevant provisions under the domestic law could be integrated in a framework for identifying indicators. It discusses data generating mechanisms, highlights the role of different actors and institutions working in the field of the right to food, and provides guidance on the use of the framework.
Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food
Author: Anne C. Bellows
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-07
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1134738730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural "disconnects" fueling food insecurity for a billion people, and disproportionally affecting women, children, and rural food producers: the separation of women’s rights from their right to adequate food and nutrition, and the fragmented attention to food as commodity and the medicalization of nutritional health. Three conditions arising from these disconnects are discussed: structural violence and discrimination frustrating the realization of women’s human rights, as well as their private and public contributions to food and nutrition security for all; many women’s experience of their and their children’s simultaneously independent and intertwined subjectivities during pregnancy and breastfeeding being poorly understood in human rights law and abused by poorly-regulated food and nutrition industry marketing practices; and the neoliberal economic system’s interference both with the autonomy and self-determination of women and their communities and with the strengthening of sustainable diets based on democratically governed local food systems. The book calls for a social movement-led reconceptualization of the right to adequate food toward incorporating gender, women’s rights, and nutrition, based on the food sovereignty framework.
International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms
Author: Gudmundur Alfredsson
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 745
ISBN-13: 9004162364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised and updated collection is intended to serve as a thematic textbook on the institutions and procedures devoted to the national implementation of human rights and to the international monitoring of State performance. Albeit not exhaustive, the coverage extends to most of the monitoring instances available at intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations: complaints, fact-finding and investigative procedures, State reporting obligations, good offices actions, dialogue functions, human rights education, dissemination of human rights information, letter campaigns, and technical co-operation. The target audience of the book is students of international human rights law, but the book can also serve as a guide for both officials and activists involved in the realization of human rights.The success of the first edition has allowed for this second edition. It demonstrates that there is a important demand for literature with a focus on human rights monitoring and follow-up activities.
Ending Hunger Worldwide
Author: George Kent
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-03
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1317260481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy does hunger persist in a world of plenty? Ending Hunger Worldwide challenges the naive notion that everyone wants hunger to end, arguing that the powerful care - but not enough to make a difference. George Kent argues that the central focus in overcoming hunger should be on building stronger communities. It is these communities which can provide mutual support to ensure that people don't go hungry. Kent demonstrates that there is not a shortage of food but of what Amartya Sen terms 'opportunities', and that developing tight-knit communities will lead to more opportunities for the hungry and undernourished. Ending Hunger Worldwide challenges dominant market-led solutions, and will be essential reading for activists, NGO workers and development students looking for a fresh perspective.
