The Human Right to Food and the 'Crime of Famine'

Abstract

In this essay the following question will be discussed and regarded from within four different perspectives (the legal and political domain and the domain of multinationals and the civil society): To what extent can and has famine, caused by human (in)action, been considered a crime since the founding of the human right to have access to adequate food as part of the adoption of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which entered into force in 1976? After which there will be made some conclusions about the possible (further) criminalization of famines caused by political malpractice.