...resources; (b) Taking into account the problems of both food-importing and food-exporting countries, to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need. Article 12 1. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment...

...non-nationals." And with regard to the right to freedom from hunger. Article 11 (b) obligates States "to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need," but also "taking into account the problems of both food- import ing and foodexporting countries." The...

...non-nationals." And with regard to the right to freedom from hunger, Article 1Kb) obligates States "to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need," but also "taking into account the problems of both food- importing and foodexporting countries." The...

...Cheryl Christensen international cooperation' the measures required to increase food production and 'ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need . . .'3 More recently, the World Food Conference declared that 'Every man, woman and child has the...

...resources ; (b) taking into account the problems of both food-importing and food-exporting countries, to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need." While, on the one hand, Article 1 1 may be shorter than some of the articles dealing with the right...

...if not worse. Among other things, as noted, the Covenants advocate a global welfare state; "in order to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need," they also, in effect, urge the socialization of farming. There is worse. Back in 1948, when the UN...

...resources; (b) Taking into account the problems of both food-importing and food-exporting counties, to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need. Article 12 1. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment...

...resources. (b) Taking into account the problems of both foodimporting and food-exporting countries, to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need. The key difference between this Covenant and the Guidelines is that the Covenant sets basic economic,...

...co-operation", the article implicitly vests rights in certain States as a corollary of the duty of all States to act. Moreover, in practical terms, the obligation...implementing such an obligation at any other level. w The question of which States might be entitled to make claims on the grounds that they are subjects...

...number of questions arise in this regard. For example, how is the duty to co-operate internationally and to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need (article 1 1 of the Covenant) to be reconciled with article 25 which states that: "Nothing in the present...