Global Obligations for the Right to Food

Informationen zum Autor George Kent is professor of political science at the University of Hawaii and he is the author of several books, including Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food and Children in the International Political Economy . Klappentext A child may be born into a poor country, but not a poor world. If global human rights are to be meaningful, they must be universal. Global Obligations for the Right to Food assesses the nature and depth of the global responsibility to provide adequate food to the world's population. Zusammenfassung A child may be born into a poor country! but not a poor world. If global human rights are to be meaningful! they must be universal. Global Obligations for the Right to Food assesses the nature and depth of the global responsibility to provide adequate food to the world's population. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Preface 2 Chapter One: Global Obligations 3 Chapter Two: Extraterritorial Obligations: A Response to Globalization 4 Chapter Three: International Legal Dimensions of the Right to Food 5 Chapter Four: Holding Corporations Accountable in Relation to the Right to Food 6 Chapter Five: International Legal Obligations for Infants' Right to Food 7 Chapter Six: Global Action against Worms, Malaria, and Measles 8 Chapter Seven: Public Access to Seeds and the Human Right to Adequate Food 9 Chapter Eight: Global Support for School Feeding 10 Chapter Nine: Reflections 11 Chapter Ten: Recommendations

Product details

• Authors: George Kent, George (EDT) Kent
• Assisted by: George Kent (Editor), Kent George (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.12.2007
• EAN: 9780742560635
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-6063-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 51 mm x 227 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Another World Is Necessary: Hu; Another World is Necessary: Human Rights, Environmental Rights, and Popular Democracy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, Aid and relief programmes, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)