A/RES/73/171
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 74 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/589/Add.2)]
73/171.
The right to food
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Charter of the United Nations and its importance for the
promotion and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all,
Reaffirming also previous resolutions and decisions on the right to food adopted
within the framework of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 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, 2 the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3 in particular Millennium
Development Goal 1 on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, and the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 4 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 also 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 importance of the Rome Declaration on World Food
Security, the World Food Summit Plan of Action and the Declaration of the World
Food Summit: five years later, adopted in Rome on 13 June 2002, 6
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Report of the World Food Conference, Rome, 5–16 November 1974 (United Nations publication,
Sales No. E.75.II.A.3), chap. I.
Resolution 55/2.
Resolution 70/1.
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
A/57/499, annex.
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