A/RES/57/226
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
26 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 109 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/556/Add.2 and Corr.1-3)]
57/226. The right to food
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 56/155 of 19 December 2001, as well as all
Commission on Human Rights resolutions in this regard, in particular resolutions
2000/10 of 17 April 2000 1 and 2002/25 of 22 April 2002, 2
Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 3 which provides
that everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for her/his health and
well-being, including food,
Recalling further the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 4 in which the fundamental right of every person to be
free from hunger is recognized,
Recalling the Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and
Malnutrition, 5
Bearing in mind the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World
Food Summit Plan of Action, 6
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated,
Recognizing that the problems of hunger and food insecurity have global
dimensions and that they are likely to persist and even to increase dramatically in
some regions unless urgent, determined and concerted action is taken, given the
anticipated increase in the world’s population and the stress on natural resources,
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2000, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum
(E/2000/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
2
Ibid., 2002, Supplement No. 3 (E/2002/23), chap. II, sect. A.
3
Resolution 217 A (III).
4
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
5
Report of the World Food Conference, Rome, 5–16 November 1974 (United Nations publication, Sales
No. E.75.II.A.3), chap. I.
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.
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