In April 2001 the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) approached the Supreme Court of India arguing that the government has a duty to provide greater relief in the context of mass hunger. The litigation has now become the best known precedent on the right to food internationally. This paper reviews the litigation with a view to understand various strategies used by the litigants to create and enforce far-reaching entitlements in a near legal vacuum on the right to food. This is followed by a discussion on the lessons from this case for a rights-based approach to development at large
Despite growing activism around the right to food in the past decade, there has been little explorat...
Addressing poverty issues in the developing world, and hunger issues in particular, is top of the gl...
Over the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sh...
In April 2001 the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) approached the Supreme Court of India ar...
The right to food is recognized as a basic right under international human rights law. The lack of ...
Right to food is a basic human right. In India, with increase in population the demand for food is o...
This Article evaluates People\u27s Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India & Others (PUCL) throu...
The Fight for the Right to Food: Lessons Learned is written by the first United Nations (UN) Special...
The human right to adequate food applies to everyone. Problems of hunger and malnutrition are proble...
Sponsored by Human Rights and Extreme Poverty Project (HUREP), University of Oslo, Lee Hysan Foundat...
Although international treaties recognize a right to food, few nations have established a domestic, ...
Objective: To demonstrate that the effectiveness of the right to food is strictly dependent on the ...
This Article evaluates People's Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India & Others (PUCL) through ...
Global hunger is widely seen as one of the foremost threats to humanity. The Constitutionality of th...
The right to food is a fundamental human right enshrined in international law. Evidence suggests tha...
Despite growing activism around the right to food in the past decade, there has been little explorat...
Addressing poverty issues in the developing world, and hunger issues in particular, is top of the gl...
Over the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sh...
In April 2001 the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) approached the Supreme Court of India ar...
The right to food is recognized as a basic right under international human rights law. The lack of ...
Right to food is a basic human right. In India, with increase in population the demand for food is o...
This Article evaluates People\u27s Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India & Others (PUCL) throu...
The Fight for the Right to Food: Lessons Learned is written by the first United Nations (UN) Special...
The human right to adequate food applies to everyone. Problems of hunger and malnutrition are proble...
Sponsored by Human Rights and Extreme Poverty Project (HUREP), University of Oslo, Lee Hysan Foundat...
Although international treaties recognize a right to food, few nations have established a domestic, ...
Objective: To demonstrate that the effectiveness of the right to food is strictly dependent on the ...
This Article evaluates People's Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India & Others (PUCL) through ...
Global hunger is widely seen as one of the foremost threats to humanity. The Constitutionality of th...
The right to food is a fundamental human right enshrined in international law. Evidence suggests tha...
Despite growing activism around the right to food in the past decade, there has been little explorat...
Addressing poverty issues in the developing world, and hunger issues in particular, is top of the gl...
Over the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sh...