In this book and elsewhere Dutch courts are portrayed as little short of barbaric for rejecting direct applicability of the human right to food. In this contribution I want to revisit case law asking the question if the rejection of direct applicability of the right to food implies that in the Netherlands …

This paper seeks to review the situation of the right to equality combined with the actual caste system in India. The world's longest surviving social hierarchy, is strongly rooted in the Indian society for over 2000 years. The first chapter focuses on the basis of the caste system deriving from Hinduism. …