Description: Further DetailsTitle: Freedom from WantCondition: NewSubtitle: The Human Right to Adequate FoodISBN-10: 1589010558EAN: 9781589010550ISBN: 9781589010550Publisher: Georgetown University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/02/2005Description: There 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 544gAuthor: George KentContributor: George Kent (Contributions by)Genre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Advancing Human Rights seriesRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Freedom from Want
Title: Freedom from Want
Subtitle: The Human Right to Adequate Food
ISBN-10: 1589010558
EAN: 9781589010550
ISBN: 9781589010550
Release Date: 06/02/2005
Release Year: 2005
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: George Kent (Contributions by)
Genre: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 290 Pages
Publication Name: Freedom from Want : the Human Right to Adequate Food
Language: English
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: Human Rights, General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: George Kent
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Advancing Human Rights Ser.
Format: Hardcover
