FOOD AS A HUMAN RIGHT.

SEC. 503. FOOD AS A HUMAN RIGHT. (a) The Right to Food and United States Foreign Policy.— (1) In general.— The United States should, in accordance with its international obligations and in keeping with the long-standing humanitarian tradition of the United States, promote increased respect internationally for the rights to food and to medical care, including the protection of these rights with respect to civilians and noncombatants during times of armed conflict (such as through ensuring safe passage of relief supplies and access to impartial humanitarian relief organizations providing relief assistance). (2) Responsibilities of assistant secretary of state.— The responsibilities of the Assistant Secretary of State who is responsible for human rights and humanitarian affairs shall include promoting increased respect internationally for the rights to food and to medical care in accordance with paragraph (1). (b) International Effort to Strengthen the Right to Food.— It is the sense of the Congress that a major effort should be made to strengthen the right to food in international law to assure the access of all persons to adequate food supplies.