A/RES/59/202
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
31 March 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 105 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/503/Add.2)]
59/202. The right to food
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 58/186 of 22 December 2003, as well as all
Commission on Human Rights resolutions in this regard, in particular resolution
2004/19 of 16 April 2004, 1
Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 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, 3 and the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 4
Recalling further the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 5 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 6 and the Declaration of the World Food Summit: five
years later, adopted in Rome on 13 June 2002, 7
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated,
Reaffirming also that a peaceful, stable and enabling political, social and
economic environment, at both the national and the international levels, is the
essential foundation that will enable States to give adequate priority to food security
and poverty eradication,
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 3 (E/2004/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
2
Resolution 217 A (III).
3
Report of the World Food Conference, Rome, 5–16 November 1974 (United Nations publication, Sales
No. E.75.II.A.3), chap. I.
4
See resolution 55/2.
5
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
6
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit,
13–17 November 1996 (WFS 96/REP), part one, appendix.
7
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit: five years
later, 10–13 June 2002, part one, appendix; see also A/57/499, annex.
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