What is the right to an adequate standard of living?
Q: What is the right to an adequate standard of living?
A: The right to an adequate standard of living is a fundamental human rights that ensures everyone has access to food, clothing, housing, medical care and necessary social services.
Q: When was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights accepted by the General Assembly of the United Nations?
A: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was accepted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948.
Q: What document mentions this right?
A: This right is mentioned in Article 25.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Q: Who first spoke about this right?
A: American President Franklin D. Roosevelt first spoke about this right as part of his Four Freedoms speech given during his State of the Union address on January 6, 1941.
Q: How did Roosevelt describe this freedom?
A: Roosevelt described it as "freedom from want which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants."
Q: What other freedoms were included in Roosevelt's speech?
A: The other freedoms included in Roosevelt's speech were freedom from fear, freedom from worship and freedom from want.
