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Fundamental human right
Freedom from Want
(1943) by painter
Norman Rockwell
The
right to an adequate standard of living
is a fundamental
human right
. It is part of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
that was accepted by the
General Assembly of the United Nations
on December 10, 1948.
[1]
Everyone has the right to a
standard of living
adequate for the health and well-being of him/herself and of his/her family, including
food
,
clothing
,
housing
and medical care and necessary social services, and the
right to security
in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his/her control.
Furthermore, it has been written down in article 11 of the United Nations'
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
.
The predecessor of this right, the
Freedom from Want
, is one of the
Four Freedoms
that
American
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
spoke out at his
State of the Union
of January 6, 1941. According to Roosevelt it is a right every human being everywhere in the world should have. Roosevelt described his third right as follows:
[2]
[3]
The third is freedom from want which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants, everywhere in the world.
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What is considered a human right is in some cases controversial; not all the topics listed are universally accepted as human rights
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