With the diminution and conclusion of the Cold War as a global conflict over the last quarter century, the international development environment changed profoundly while hundreds of millions still remain undernourished. This issue of Hunger Notes honors the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Analyzing 50 years of human rights treaties and subsequent commitments is an important responsibility for all human rights organizations and social justice activists. For fifty years the legal and political concept of human rights has been evolving as a set of universal norms for the international community and its component states. There is no need to establish a right to food.
Rights make people lazy.