A/RES/72/306
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 July 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 14
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 24 July 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/72/L.63 and A/72/L.63/Add.1)]
72/306.
Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action
on Nutrition (2016–2025)
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 70/259 of 1 April 2016, by which it proclaimed the
period 2016–2025 the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and endorsed
the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and the Framework for Action adopted at the
Second International Conference on Nutrition, jointly organized by the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization,
in Rome from 19 to 21 November 2014, 1
Emphasizing the need to eradicate hunger and prevent all forms of malnutrition
worldwide, particularly undernourishment, stunting, wasting, underweight and
overweight in children under 5 years of age and anaemia in women and children,
among other micronutrient deficiencies, as well as to reverse the rising trends in
overweight and obesity and reduce the burden of diet-related non-communicable
diseases in all age groups,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable developmen t, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic,
social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to building upon
the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their
unfinished business,
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World Health Organization, document EB 136/8, annexes I and II.
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