A/RES/63/187 United Nations Distr.: General 17 March 2009 General Assembly Sixty-third session Agenda item 64 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/430/Add.2)] 63/187. 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, 0F 1F 2F 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, 3F 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 4F 5F Reaffirming 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, 7 6F _______________ 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. 7 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, annex. 2 08-48201

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