NationStates Jolt Archive


Draft proposal: the Right to Food

Antipolo
06-08-2005, 15:27
This has been carefully re-edited to provide more substance.


Right to Food

Category: Social Justice
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Antipolo

The United Nations,

Fully aware that hunger and the basic lack of food have global implications and that they are more than likely to increase in some regions,

Expecting the mitigating factor of continual exponential increase in the world’s population and the stress on natural resources,

Noting with regret other obstacles to the right to food such as plagues and natural disasters,

Having examined that only determined and unwavering action is the only way to solve this dilemma:

1. Authorizes the United Nations to provide necessary resources to fulfill the right to food for as many people as possible;
a. Calls upon a survey among countries of the world to find out which countries are suffering more from hunger, thus allocating resources accordingly;
b. Designates the UNFO (United Nations Food Organization) to handle the concerns of world hunger;
c. Requests a UNFO branch in every region to properly address specific concerns that may affect them locally;
d. Approves the acquisition of farmland in all regions to provide a source of food, of which to donate;
e. Further invites all citizens in every nation to donate food to the organization;
f. Proclaim the UNFO distribute food to the most needy;

2. Calls upon governments to give an adequate response towards the realization in the right to food;
a. Emphasizes all nations to take steps to promote everyone to be free from hunger, and to make and enact national plans to fight hunger;
b. Endorses governments to support local organizations that pertain to food drives, distributing food to the needy, etc and give them proper funding of at least 1% of their expenditures;

3. Declares accordingly the right to food be available for all people;
a. Proclaims hunger an outrage and a violation of human dignity;
b. Notes the need for everyone to have safe and nutritional foods to fully develop and maintain oneself, both physically and mentally;
Antipolo
06-08-2005, 21:51
Please make any comments or suggestions of this new proposal. We humbly thank you for your time.

Thanks again,
Antipolo