A/HRC/RES/22/9
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 April 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-second session
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
22/9.
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, as well as all resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights
on the issue,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the
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 these 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 of the 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 her or his health and well-being, including
food, the Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition and the
United Nations Millennium Declaration,
Recalling also the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, in which the right of everyone to adequate food, including the fundamental
right of every person to be free from hunger, is recognized,
Bearing in mind the Rome Declaration on World Food Security, the World Food
Summit Plan of Action and the Declaration of the World Food Summit, adopted on 13 June
2002, the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, adopted on 16 November
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its twenty-second session (A/HRC/22/2), chap. I.
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