Citizens’ Initiative for the Rights of Children Under Six. 2006. Focus on children under six. Delhi: Circus.
This report looks at the status of children under six, and the status of India’s only major child care system – Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). The report is based on a six-state survey and numerous other materials. The focus report is a joint work by a large team. My contribution was on the Tamil Nadu chapter (in collaboration with other team members)
Drèze, Jean, and S. Vivek. 2002. Hunger in the classroom. Food and Nutrition World (Sample issue).
This was originally published as an editorial in Hindustan Times, a leading newspaper in India. It is a small piece on the role of school feeding in addressing classroom hunger.
Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb, and S. Vivek. Forthcoming. Gender and the right to food: A critical reexamination. Paper presented at Gender and Food Security, Kolkatta.
This paper looks at the relationship between gender and the right to food by re-examining approaches in current economic literature and suggesting ways of understanding gender and food security. Click here for draft
———. 2005. Rights based approach to development: Lessons from the right to food movement. Paper presented at Hunger and Food Security, Jaipur.
The paper looks at the role of litigation for the right to food. Abstract: In April 2001 People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) approached the Supreme Court of India arguing that the government has a duty to provide greater relief in the context of mass hunger. The litigation has now become the best known precedent on the right to food internationally. This paper reviews the litigation with a view to understand various strategies used by the litigants to create and enforce far-reaching entitlements in a near legal vacuum on the right to food. This is followed by a discussion on the lessons from this case for rights based approach to development at large. Click here for draft.
Mander, Harsh, Drèze, Jean, and Vivek, S. Freedom from hunger and fear. Delhi: RGICS, 2002.
A report based on a meeting to dicsuss issues that could be taken up for advocacy with political parties in the run-up to Lok Sabha elections 2004.
Vivek, S. Forthcoming. School feeding as a global obligation. In Global obligation for the right to food., ed. George Kent. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
Various international instruments profess the right to food directly or indirectly. Can there be global obligation that binds governments and multilateral agencies? This article looks at the question with respect to school feeding.
———. Forthcoming. Democracy and the politics of hunger. In Human right to adequate food: Definitions, interpretations and initiatives (tentative)., ed. Cecilia Florencio.
This is my attempt to look at the role of democratic practices in fostering the right to food. It looks at the role of social movements in creating political priorities and ensuring sound implementation of food programmes.
———. Notes from the right to food campaign: People’s movement for the right to food. Paper presented at Towards a hunger-free India, Delhi organised by World Food Program and M S Swaminatha Research Foundation.
This is my first detailed overview of the Right to Food Campaign. It looks at various initiatives of the campaign.
———. 2003. Hope in our hands. Humanscape X, (Xii; 10th Anniversary Series) (Dec 2003).
The article was written for a magazine covering social issues for its 10th Anniversary.
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