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Food Uncertainty

Right to Food is a human right i.e. access to adequate food is the fundamental right of humans.

 It protects the right of all human beings to live in self-respect, free from food uncertainty, starvation and malnutrition.

The right to food is a human right derived from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). ICESCR has given the definition for the right to food in its General Comment 12, 1999, Para 6, which states that the right to sufficient food is realized when every woman, man and child, alone or in society with others, have the physical and economic access always to adequate food or means for its procurement.

In 2002, UN Special Rapporteur (People working on behalf of United Nations to study, observe and suggest solutions to human rights problems) defined the right to food in its Section A/HRC/7/5 as the rights given to human to have normal, permanent and unlimited access, either directly or by acquisition, to qualitatively and quantitatively sufficient and adequate food equal to the cultural societies of the people to which he belongs, and which ensures the dignified life free of fear.

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Work Rights

Every human being has the right to work for a basic living wage and cannot be prevented from doing so. Right to work is closely related to right to food, right to life and right to education.

 In fact, unemployment is the main cause of extensive starvation and poverty around the world. The right to work brings security in people’s lives. Everyone, without any discrimination (sex, color, religion, nationality, language, social origin), has the right to equal pay for equal work. Performing some work means carrying out some actions that will assure desires and create services for your group and society, and it is therefore, acknowledged and pleased.

The right to work is preserved in the UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and recognized in international human rights law through its inclusion in the ICESCR (International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights).

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