Online Course: The Human Right to Food

This online course will review recent developments relating to the human right to adequate food, and also develop skills in applying it in specific contexts. It will use the Yahoo! Groups software. The core text is Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food, by the Course Director, Professor George Kent of the University of Hawai'i. The course will begin on February 20, 2006 and end on May 15, 2006. It will be offered online through TRANSCEND Peace University. The tuition cost for participants from the EU/Western Europe, North America, Japan and South-East Asia/Australia will be 300 Euros, and for all others it will be 150 Euros. Information about TPU and its registration procedures is available at http://www.transcend.org/tpu/