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Children's Human Rights: Progress and Challenges for Children Worldwide and Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2006

Lawrence J. LeBlanc
Affiliation:
Marquette University

Extract

Children's Human Rights: Progress and Challenges for Children Worldwide. Edited by Mark Ensalaco and Linda C. Majka. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. 288p. $82.50 cloth, $32.95 paper.

Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food. By George Kent. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005. 290p. $49.95 cloth, $26.95 paper.

The body of literature on international human rights has grown tremendously in the last three decades or so. The two books under review here expand this body of literature and aim to contribute to our understanding of the development and growth of human rights regimes—systems of norms, rules, and decision-making procedures—in two different but related areas: The volume edited by Mark Ensalaco and Linda Majka deals with the rights of the child; George Kent's work focuses on the right to food, or, more precisely, on what he calls the right to adequate food.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Copyright
2006 American Political Science Association

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