A/HRC/RES/34/12
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 April 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fourth session
27 February–24 March 2017
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 23 March 2017
34/12.
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 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,
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 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, and the
Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, adopted on 16 November 2009,
Reaffirming the importance of the concrete recommendations contained in the
Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food
in the Context of National Food Security, adopted by the Council of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in November 2004, and the Rome
GE.17-05567(E)