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establish clear rules and procedures that they would follow as if they were firm
duties.
The sharp reduction of hunger and malnutrition throughout the world will
require clear articulation of the action required to achieve each particular target
along the way, and clear commitment by the parties to take the actions that are
required. If those parties are serious about sharply reducing the levels of hunger
and malnutrition in the world, they should be willing to create a body that would
hold them to account for keeping those commitments.
They may not be serious. It would be good to challenge them in order to find
out if they are.
The human right to adequate food is just one of many possible points of en-
try to the interlocking complex of concerns about human rights, democracy, de-
velopment, and governance at every level. It has been presented in this book not
as something apart but as one entryway into this larger agenda. Human rights
work helps to illuminate the path, throwing light onto the darker sides of indi-
vidual and governmental behavior, and clarifying what is right and what is wrong.
It contributes to empowering the weak and making the world a bit fairer. Like
medicine, its quest is to make itself unnecessary. Human rights are tools to
be used along with many other instruments deployed in the pursuit of good gov-
ernance, both within nations and internationally. Human rights work is un-
ashamedly utopian. Yet in showing us the right direction, human rights work is
also eminently practical.
Sources
This is a guide to source materials on the human right to adequate food.
Human Rights Generally
Many useful websites deal with human rights. The most important is the site
maintained by the O~ce of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, http://www.ohchr.org. Regional human rights agreements and bodies
may be accessed at http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/regional.htm/. Some re-
gional human rights bodies have their own websites, such as the European Court
of Human Rights site, http://www.echr.coe.int/.
Several civil society organizations have created websites that provide an
overview of, and links to, the many human rights sources on the web. The Con-
cise Guide to Human Rights on the Internet, http://www.derechos.org/human-
rights/manual.htm?manual#first_hit, prepared by Derechos Human Rights,
identifies many other useful websites, o’
ers guidance on finding national mate-
rials, provides references to useful search engines, and also o’
ers sections on
mailing lists, newsgroups, and chat rooms.
Other sites that provide links to a broad array of human rights-related infor-
mation include:
À
Derechos Human Rights, http://www.derechos.net
À
Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights),
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/
À
Minnesota Human Rights Library, http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/ and
À
essays on current issues in the field may be found in Human Rights
Dialogue, http://www.cceia.org/themes/hrd.html.
Most of the information about human rights on websites is international in
its orientation. However, a great deal of useful information can be obtained from
the websites of national and other human rights commissions. For example, it
would be useful to consult the websites of national human rights commissions,
such as those of
À
Australia, http://www.hreoc.gov.au
À
Canada, http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca
À
Guatemala, http://www.ghrc-usa.org
À
India, http://nhrc.nic.in
À
New Zealand, http://www.hrc.co.nz and
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South Africa, http://www.sahrc.org.za
The common use of the label  human rights commission should not lead to
the belief that there are any great similarities in the character of these organiza-
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tions. Not all of them are sponsored by national governments. Some, such as the
one for Guatemala, are independent bodies that have been set up outside the
country.
There are many subnational human rights commissions, such as those in the
provinces of Canada and many states of the United States. There is one supra-
national regional commission, the Asian Human Rights Commission, based in
Hong Kong, http://www.ahrchk.net. This is only a sampling. Searches on the
World Wide Web would locate the websites of many more human rights com-
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