Wednesday, October 15, 2008

World Food Day USA - eleanor roosevelt and the right to food

World Food Day USA October 16th, 2008 ( http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/ ) honored Eleanor Roosevelt’s contribution to advancing the cause for right to food for everyone and recognized her efforts 50 yeaars ago. What follows is the text from her fireside chat in 1948 sourced from the World Food Day USA web site.

 THE RIGHT TO FOOD

“Eleanor Roosevelt is recognized everywhere as a champion of human rights.  Not
only is she credited, as a result of her fervent leadership and
perseverance in shepherding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
through difficult and complex negotiations to the point of adoption by
the UN General Assembly in 1948, but she devoted her life to the
promotion of the rights of people everywhere, of every walk of life. 
She said more than once that she felt that the first human right –  the
great human right –  was food. Consequently, there is perhaps no one
better to serve as an inspiration for World Food Day,"  quoting from the

World Food Day USA web site. They have
attempted to bring her into our presence through a tapestry of words
taken from her speeches and writings.   “The First Human Right -  A
Fireside Chat with Eleanor” was presented at the observance of World
Food Day at the United Nations on October 18, 2007. 

It can be viewed at  http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/

THE FIRST HUMAN RIGHT –
A FIRESIDE CHAT WITH ELEANOR