A/RES/61/163
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 February 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 67 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2006
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/61/443/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
61/163. The right to food
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on the issue of the right to food, in
particular resolution 60/165 of 16 December 2005, as well as all resolutions of the
Commission on Human Rights in this regard,
Recalling also 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
Recalling further 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
the Context of National Food Security, adopted by the Council of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in November 2004, 7
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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.
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.
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