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A/HRC/RES/28/10
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
2 April 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-eighth 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
28/10.
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 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 further 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, in particular Millennium Development
Goal 1 on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by 2015,
Recalling 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 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, the
Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, adopted on 16 November 2009, and
the Marrakesh Ministerial Decision on Measures Concerning the Possible Negative Effects
of the Reform Programme on Least Developed and Net Food-importing Countries, adopted
on 15 April 1994,
Reaffirming the concrete recommendations contained in the Voluntary Guidelines to
Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of
GE.15-07084 (E)