A/HRC/RES/40/7
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 April 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fortieth session
25 February–22 March 2019
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 21 March 2019
40/7.
The right to food
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling all previous resolutions of the General Assembly and the Human Rights
Council on the right to food, and all resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights on
the issue,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the
Human Rights Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate
Holders of the Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that all mandate holders shall
discharge their duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Recalling further the seventh special session of the Human Rights Council, at which
the Council analysed the negative impact of the worsening world food crisis on the
realization of the right to food for all, and Council resolutions S-7/1 of 22 May 2008, 9/6 of
18 September 2008 and 12/10 of 1 October 2009,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which provides that everyone
has the right to a standard of living adequate for his or her health and well-being, including
food, the Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition, the United
Nations Millennium Declaration, in particular Millennium Development Goal 1 on
eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, in particular the Sustainable Development Goals on ending hunger,
achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture and
on ending poverty in all its forms everywhere,
Recalling also the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, in which the fundamental right of every person to be free from hunger is
recognized,
Bearing in mind the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food
Summit Plan of Action, adopted at the World Food Summit in November 1996, the
Declaration of the World Food Summit: five years later, adopted on 13 June 2002, and the
Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, adopted on 16 November 2009,
Recalling the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and its Framework for Action, adopted
at the second International Conference on Nutrition, held in Rome on 21 November 2014,
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