A/RES/72/173
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
26 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/439/Add.2)]
72/173.
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 wellbeing, 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,
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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.
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