A/HRC/RES/46/19
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 April 2021
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-sixth session
22 February–24 March 2021
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 24 March 2021
46/19.
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 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 further 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,
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated, and that they must be treated globally, in a fair and equal manner, on the same
footing and with the same emphasis,
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, and
reaffirming the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security, and the
recommendations and commitments made therein,
Stressing the importance of 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,
Acknowledging that the right to food has been recognized as the right of every
individual, alone or in community with others, to have physical and economic access at all
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