The right to adequate food as the example of human rights’ interdependence

Monika A. Szkarłat

Abstract


Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted on 1993 recognize and affirms that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated. The right to adequate food as part of the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living (art. 11 CESCR) is inseparable from human dignity and physical survival of human kind. The fulfillment and holistic approach in human rights’ analysis is perceived as an effect of enforcement of human rights’ interdependence. The prerequisite of the right to food realization is the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger. On the other hand, right to adequate food is a wider ontological and legal concept than just the requirement to fight hunger. The proper fulfillment of the right depends on several conditions such as the realization of the right to health, work, education, women rights, rights of the child, property rights, right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, right to information and freedom of choice etc. The proper explanation of terms such as ‘adequate food’ is a sine qua non indicator for those responsible for human rights’ fulfillment.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/k.2014.21.2.65
Date of publication: 2015-05-21 17:26:30
Date of submission: 2015-05-21 11:36:05


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