Volume 7 Issue 1 November 2020
The Justiciable Right to Food and Adequate Nutrition in the UK: A Feasible Proposition?NICOLE LIEBERMAN
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This article looks at the right to food. Historically the idea of a right to food has a long pedigree in UK law. However, the way that human rights are currently protected makes it difficult to consider food and access to it as an actionable right. As this article argues, this is a Reflection of a political and ideological choices about rights and the contents of rights. Countries such as India, with an actionable right to food, have seen tactical litigation which has improved people’s access to food. This article explores how a right to food could be constructed in the UK.
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