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Why are food and water basic human rights?

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Question added by Amal Brahmi , Primary teacher , Ajyal Alghad
Date Posted: 2015/05/04

Food and Water are the basic elements for life and human dignity. Maslow put them in the base of its pyramid "hierarchy" of needs, as physiological needs. 

 

According Wikipedia, physiological needs are the physical requirements for human survival. If these requirements are not met, the human body cannot function properly and will ultimately fail (..) Air, water, and food are metabolic requirements for survival. 

 

Therefore, we could say that the safeguarding of human life is one of the principles of human rights.

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