01/10/2008
The World Food Crisis and The Right to Food
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National and global political decisions that fail to take the human rights obligations of states and intergovernmental organisations into account are the main reasons why hunger still persists. One of the most essential instruments to increase public pressure with which it is possible to hold governments and intergovernmental bodies accountable for their policies and programmes is the establishment of monitoring tools to check that states meet their obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the human right to adequate food of every person globally.