A/HRC/RES/52/16
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 April 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-second session
27 February–4 April 2023
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 3 April 2023
52/16.
The right to food
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling all previous resolutions of the General Assembly and the Human Rights
Council on the right to food, and all resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights on the
issue,
Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which provides that
everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for his or her health and well-being,
including food, the Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition, the
United Nations Millennium Declaration, in particular Millennium Development Goal 1 on
eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, in particular the Sustainable Development Goals on ending hunger and all
forms of malnutrition, achieving food security and improved nutrition, promoting sustainable
agriculture and ending poverty in all its forms everywhere,
Recalling further the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights, in which the fundamental right of every person to be free from hunger
is recognized,
Recalling the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on
Financing for Development, one of the strategic thrusts of which is focused on increasing
funding efforts to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition, support sustainable agriculture
and food systems, revitalize the agricultural sector, promote rural development and ensure
food security and nutrition,
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated, and that they must be treated globally, in a fair and equal manner, on the same
footing and with the same emphasis,
Bearing in mind the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food
Summit Plan of Action, adopted at the World Food Summit in November 1996, the
Declaration of the World Food Summit: five years later, adopted on 13 June 2002, 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 2004, and the Declaration of the World Summit on
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