America Needs Human Rights: A Food First Documentary on DVD

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted in 1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations to establish universal standards and aspirations for human dignity. Eleanor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were instrumental in the drafting of the new 'second bill of rights,' which declared civil-political and economic-social rights to be universal and indivisible, and guaranteed food, housing, and a minimum standard of living as basic human rights. Fifty years later America is not living up to its commitments under the UDHR.

Told in the voices of welfare mothers, homeless men and women, low-wage workers, seniors, veterans, and health care workers, America Needs Human Rights uses a human rights framework to portray the social ills of contemporary America and lay the basis for a powerful movement for fundamental change.

DVD, color, 23 minutes
This video is in DVD NTSC Format, and can be played in the following countries: USA, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Burma, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Greenland, Guam, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Kitts, Saipan, Samoa, Surinam, Taiwan, Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela, Virgin Islands.

Anuradha Mittal and Peter Rosset, executive producers
Megan Sheer, producer and editor
Jamie Kibben, camera
ISBN: 0-935028-80-3
DVD, color, 23 minutes