Child Hunger and Human Rights: International Governance

ISBN-13: 9780415552691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 192 str.

Clair Apodaca

Opis

This book focuses on the rights of children to be free from hunger and applies the human rights theory of the state’s legal obligation to the problem of child malnutrition. This book includes moral, economic, political and legal components to the research on the child’s right to be free from hunger.

Apodaca investigates the effects of national and international governmental policies on the incidences of chronic hunger in children, using two methods of investigation. The first is a historical comparative method based on the systematic analysis of the content of historical materials, government documents, policy statements, state budgets, newspaper reports and other public records, and the second is statistical analysis.

Examining the connection between governmental agricultural, economic and financial policies, international donor policies, and transnational corporate voluntary codes of conduct affecting child malnutrition rates, this book will be of interest to policy makers, activists, students and scholars of human rights, social justice, international ethics, development, international relations and law.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Child Hunger and the Rights-Based Approach  3. A State’s Obligation for the Child’s Right to Food  4. The International Community’s Obligations Under the Human Right to Food  5. The Duties of International Financial Institutions to the Child’s Right to be Free from Hunger  6. Transnational Obligations of Multinational Corporations  7. The Investment and Empowerment of Women  8. Hunger in the Developed World  9. Conclusion

O autorze

Clair Apodaca is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Florida International University, USA.