A/RES/60/165 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 2 March 2006 Sixtieth session Agenda item 71 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/509/Add.2 (Part II))] 60/165. The right to food The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 59/202 of 20 December 2004, as well as all Commission on Human Rights resolutions in this regard, in particular resolution 2005/18 of 14 April 2005, 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 Welcoming 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, 8 _______________ 1 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum (E/2005/23 and Corr.1), 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. 8 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Session, Rome, 22–27 November 2004 (CL 127/REP), appendix D; see also E/CN.4/2005/131. 05-49750

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