A/RES/65/220
United Nations
Distr.: General
5 April 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 68 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/456/Add.2 (Part II))]
65/220. The right to food
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming all 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 and the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3 in particular
Millennium Development Goal 1 on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by
2015,
Recalling also the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 4 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 5 and the Declaration of the World Food Summit: five
years later, adopted in Rome on 13 June 2002, 6
Reaffirming the concrete recommendations contained in the Voluntary
Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in
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1
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.
3
See resolution 55/2.
4
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
5
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit, 13–
17 November 1996 (WFS 96/REP), part one, appendix.
6
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.
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