Why UDHR might lack Food and Environment

The only information I found on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights came from the UN site itself, and similar websites. It seems as though there are no websites actually discussing the lack of Food and Environmental Securities in the UDHR.

After reading the information from the UN website, I thought of many possible reasons why food wasn't prevalent. First, one must take into account what the inspiration was for this document: WWII. The UN vowed not to let a tragedy of this caliber happen again. Therefore, it seems the UN was more focused on rights relating to the war, such as economic, political, community, and personal; rather than something as minimal as food. Secondly, the primary drafters of the document were UN officials from Lebanon, the USSR, China, France, the US, the UK, Australia, Chile, and Canada. While each of these countries has their level of poverty, no severely impoverished country was involved in the drafting. One would think that the UDHR would have been rewritten to include modern day problems; however, the UN website says this document has "inspired more than 80 international human rights treaties and declarations," so the UN may think it unnecessary to edit this draft, when other treaties have done it for them. 


The reason environment wasn't included, I think, is more simple. In 1948, the world wasn't really concerned with the environment in the way we are today. Therefore, maybe the UN didn't think it was a big enough deal to include it in the UDHR.