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Freedom from Want
The Human Right to Adequate Food
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.
About the Author
Endorsements
"George Kent's book makes it clear that an individual's right to adequate food is a legal human right, grounded in law and public justice."—Rev. David Beckmann, president, Bread for the World
"As a legal claim, the 'human right to adequate food' may seem thin gruel, but George Kent enriches the concept with data-based policy analysis, compelling ethical arguments, and a full review of concerned international, national, and nongovernmental organizations. He persuasively makes the case for accountability where the face of famine, malnutrition, and starvation confront the hands of those who hold political power at every level in our new global economy."—Richard Pierre Claude, founding editor of Human Rights Quarterly and professor emeritus, University of Maryland
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Paperback / softback | |
June 8, 2005 | |
9781589010567 | |
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240 | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
.95 Pounds (US) | |
$29.95 USD, £22.50 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Hardback | |
June 13, 2005 | |
9781589010550 | |
English | |
240 | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
1.2 Pounds (US) | |
$89.95 USD, £67.50 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Other Titles by George Kent
Black American Literature and Humanism
A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
Other Titles from Advancing Human Rights
Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World
Breaking Silence
New Rights Advocacy
Other Titles in POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
Final Words
Rights and the City
Sex Trafficking and Human Rights
Other Titles in Human rights
Final Words
Witness to the Truth
Mobilizing Romani Ethnicity