I-c. Sections

The tutorial is divided into ten Sections, as follows: 

Section I, this one, introduces and previews the entire tutorial.

Section II introduces the major technical and social dimensions of food and nutrition issues. It does not discuss human rights. The section begins with a global overview, and then guides participants through inquiry about the food and nutrition situation in the countries they are studying.

Section III describes the international human rights system in broad terms.

Section IV describes the human right to food and nutrition.

Section V argues that the three key elements of any rights system are:

• The rights holders and their rights;

• The  duty-bearers and their obligations corresponding to the rights of the rights holders; and

• The agents of accountability, and the procedures through which they assure that the duty bearers meet their obligations to the rights holders. The accountability mechanisms include, in particular, the remedies available to the rights holders themselves.

National, international, or other rights systems may be viewed as specific forms of this generic type. These three key elements of rights systems are examined in turn in Sections VI, VII, and VIII.

While previous sections generally focus on national and subnational levels, Section IX takes us back up to the global level. Here we review some of the major issues relating to economic, social and cultural rights worldwide.

Finally, Section X describes a variety of concrete applications of the human rights approach to food and nutrition.

Most sections begin with characterizations of rights systems generally, and then move on to apply what has been learned to the specific issue of the human right to food and nutrition.

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Subsection I-c last updated on July 13, 1999