Food as a basic human right
Provision of nutritious food is a basic human right. Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states that:
‘You have the right to good quality health care and to clean water, nutritious food and a clean environment so that you can stay healthy. Rich countries should help poorer countries achieve this.’
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Millennium Development Goals
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were agreed at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000 and nearly 190 countries have signed up to them. The goals are international targets for reducing global poverty. They aim to lift around 500 million people out of poverty by the year 2015. If this happens, fewer women will die in childbirth, fewer people will die from treatable diseases, many more boys and girls will go to school and the lives of millions of people will improve dramatically.
- Goal number one on the list is – to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
- Target – Between 1990 and 2015, halve the proportion of people whose income is less that $1 a day.
- Target – Between 1990 and 2015, halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
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Case studies
