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^ Read ! Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food (Advancing Human Rights) by George Kent ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food (Advancing Human Rights) "Lacks any logical or moral justification for the existence of any right to adequate food." according to Yin-Haan. The critical flaw of this book is that nowhere in the book can I find any place where Kent acknowledges, much less articulates, any logical or moral basis for a supposed right to adequate food. Kent sort of implies that the statement of food rights in international . A critical scrutiny of hunger as a political problem Freedom From Want: The Human Right To Adequate Food is a critica
| Title | : | Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food (Advancing Human Rights) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (596 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1589010566 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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 . "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
George Kent is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i, and author of The Politics of Children's Survival and Children in the International Political Economy.
"Lacks any logical or moral justification for the existence of any right to adequate food." according to Yin-Haan. The critical flaw of this book is that nowhere in the book can I find any place where Kent acknowledges, much less articulates, any logical or moral basis for a supposed right to adequate food. Kent sort of implies that the statement of food rights in international . A critical scrutiny of hunger as a political problem Freedom From Want: The Human Right To Adequate Food is a critical scrutiny of hunger as a political problem, stressing that feeding people will not solve what is wrong - feeding programs can only be a short-term, symptomatic treatment, not a cure. The real solution,
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.. 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. 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 al
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