Legal Analysis of the Fundamental Right to Food in Pakistan: International Obligation and Domestic Compliance
Keywords:
Right to Food, Safeguard, Access, Constitution, International Obligations, Domestic ComplianceAbstract
This doctrinal study is conducted keeping in view the significance of Right to food as one of basic human right necessary to realise the right to life. Its protection is crucial for the survival of humanity. Pakistan is the fifth most populus country in the world with a population of 240.5 million. For the prosperity of the country and eventually peace in the world, ensuring the right to food to such a good number of populations is of utmost importance. Nonetheless, hunger and malnutrition has become a common problem. Food born diseases are taking tolls of life of elder and children both. This study aims at examining the obligation of Islamic Republic of Pakistan to ensure right to food along with the steps taken by the authorities concerned for the compliance of this international obligation at domestic level through constitutional provisions and other statutory enactments. It entails a brief portion of discussion on the role played by the judiciary in the protection of this right. However, a separate study may be conducted on it. Considering the multifaced nature of this right, the study concluded with the recommendations that all the dimensions from production of right to food waste should be considered by Pakistan to ensure the right to food as a fundamental right of its citizen.
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