Food
Rights-Based Approach to Development - Lessons from the Right to Food Movement in India
UN-WIDER, January 2007 Authors: Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis1 and S. Vivek2
In April 2001 the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) approached the Supreme Court of India arguing that the government has a duty to provide greater relief in the context of mass hunger. The litigation has now become the best known precedent on the right to food internationally. This paper reviews the litigation with a view to understand various strategies used by the litigants to create and enforce far-reaching entitlements in a near legal vacuum on the right to food. This is followed by a discussion on the lessons from this case for a rights-based approach to development at large.
Implementing a Human Rights Approach to Food Security
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004
Author: Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo
This booklet summarizes the history and development of the human rights-based approach to estabilshing food security. It identifies treaties, summits and international laws which are relevant to the right to food, which may be influential when using human rights as a guide to development programs in this area. It overviews regional and national progress in the area of food security and human rights, and provides information on the pros of taking a human-rights based approach with regard to food security.
The Human Rights Approach to Reducing Malnutrition
Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii, George Kent, 2000
Malnutrition leads to death, illness, and significantly reduced quality of life for hundreds of millions. People have a right to not be malnourished; since people have the human right to food and nutrition, others have obligations to assure that the right is realized. Nations that are parties to these agreements have made a commitment to assure the realization of the human right to food and nutrition. This article explores the responsibilities of duty bearers and other related ideas for the implementing of a HRBA with regard to malnutrition.
Third Submission of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) for the Voluntary Guidelines on the Right to Adequate Food
Jean Ziegler. United Nations Commission on Human Rights, October 2003.
Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security
Draft by Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Second Session, Rome, October 27-29, 2003.
Towards a Just, Rights-Based and Sustainable Food System
presentation by Caroline Dommen at the Sustaining a Future for Agriculture Conference, November 2004.