Access to Justice and the Right to Adequate Food Implementing….pdf

Sustainable Development Law Policy Volume 6 Article 17 Issue 1 Fall 2005: Developm ent Goals Indicators Acces s to Justice and the Right to Adequate Food: Implementing Millennium Development Goal One Marc J. Cohen Mary A shby Brown Follow this and additional works at : /sdlp Part of the Environmental Law Commons, Food and Drug Law Commons, Health Law and Policy Commons, and the International Law Commons ecommended Citation Cohen, Marc J. and Mary A shby Brown. Access to Justice and the ight to Adequate Food: Implementing Millennium Development Goal One. Sustainable Development Law Policy, Fall 2005, 54-56, 80-81. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Washington College of Law Journals Law eviews at Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sustainable Development Law Policy by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law. For more information, please contact fbrown@. ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND THE RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD: IMPLEMENTING MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL ONE by Marc J. Cohen and Mary Ashby Brown* INTRODUCTION human rights, but rights-holders must have access to competent, impartial, and independent processes that can adjudicate dis- his paper explores the added value of a justiciable right putes and rule on claims. Put simply, meaningful rights must be to adequate food for food security and sustainable devel- Topment. The world is not on track to meet the enforceable.10 Millennium Devel