Access to justice and the right to food: the way forward 2015, para. 3
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In the wake of the momentum generated by the 1996 World Food Summit, which highlighted the need to further "clarify the content of the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger", the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 1999 adopted general comment No. 12 on the right to adequate food (hereinafter, "general comment No. 12") which clarifies the implications of three levels of State obligation, including the obligation to respect, protect and fulfil (paras. 14 and 15).
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Document type
Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Food & Nutrition
Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
All
Year
2015
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Other
Reference
SR Food, Report to the HRC (2015), A/HRC/28/65, para. 3.