THE RIGHT TO FOOD AS A HUMAN RIGHT: AN OVERVIEW OF NUTRITIONAL STANDARDS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
AUTHOR – DR. K.L. CHANDRASHEKHARA, ASST. PROFESSOR OF LAW, VIDYAVARDHAKA LAW COLLEGE, AFFILIATED TO KARNATAKA STATE LAW UNIVERSITY, MYSURU
BEST CITATION – DR. K.L. CHANDRASHEKHARA, THE RIGHT TO FOOD AS A HUMAN RIGHT: AN OVERVIEW OF NUTRITIONAL STANDARDS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 6 (9) OF 2026, PG. 1002-1009, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344. DOI – https://doi.org/10.65393/IJLRV6I9104
Abstract
The right to food finds recognition in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 as well. Article 25 assures the right to a standard of living sufficient for healthy well-being of oneself and one’s family as including food. Article 11(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, states that the right to passable food is essential for a standard of living. Hence, being free from hunger is a fundamental right of everyone. The right to adequate food can only be realized when each person by themselves or as part of a community, gains continuous access physically and economically to adequate food or at least access to the means for procuring food. At its core this right seeks to imply that, both quantitatively and qualitatively, sufficient food is made available so as to fulfill all the dietary needs of all people, while ensuring that such food is not only within the cultural context at is also free from adverse substances, besides being accessible and sustainable so as to ensure that the same does not come into conflict with the enjoyment of any of the other human rights.
It is commonly accepted that around the world today, an estimated one hundred and eighty to two hundred million persons between the ages of ten to twenty four years are living with disabilities.1 Also, it is often assumed that responding to the vulnerabilities of persons with disabilities simply requires extending humanitarian aid protection paradigm to them. That paradigm focuses on adherence to humanitarian principles, securing and maintaining access, and developing sophisticated on going food security analysis and programme.
Key Words: Right to Food, Persons with Disability, Human Rights, Nutritional Standards