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What is the Right to Food?

Did you know?

  		•  the right to food is a basic human right as well as a basic human need?
  		• "freedom from want" (which included the right to food) was first coined by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941?
  		• the right to food is recognized directly or indirectly by
    all countries in the world, to some degree or another?
  		• States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights have a legally binding obligation to take steps to respect, protect, facilitate and fulfil the right to food?
  		• all human rights - civil, cultural, economic, political and social are indivisible, interdependent, interrelated, mutally supportive and equally important?


    for more information:

    FOCUS: Food: a fundamental human right

    World Food Summit: five years later
    ISSUES: what is the right to food? (all languages)

     
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