Apodaca - Child hunger and human rights international governance

Child Hunger and Human Rights

Child Hunger and Human Rights: International Governance applies the human rights theory of legal obligation to the problem of child malnutrition and investigates whether duty-bearers have fulfilled their obligations to protect, respect and provide.

This book includes moral, economic, political, and legal components to the research on the childs right to be free from hunger. Two methods of investigation are used: the first 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. Apodaca investigates beyond the suffering, deformities, and deaths of children, to child malnutrition resulting in reduced physical and mental development threatening the childs life opportunities, the prospects of further generations, and the growth of the economy.

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.

Clair Apodaca is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University.

Child Hunger and Human Rights

International governance

Clair Apodaca

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The book is dedicated to my children Andrea, Jamey, and Jeremy