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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (2010), para. 11
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- 5. Expresses concern at the persistent problems of large numbers of internally displaced persons worldwide, in particular the risk of extreme poverty and socio-economic exclusion, their limited access to humanitarian assistance, vulnerability to human rights violations and difficulties resulting from their specific situation, such as lack of food, medication or shelter, and issues pertinent during their reintegration, including, in appropriate cases, the need for the restitution of or compensation for property;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2018), para. 74
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- 53. Notes with concern the severe drought affecting Afghanistan, with 3.3 million Afghans facing emergency-level food insecurity and more than 220,000 Afghans displaced from their homes, and urges the international community to provide the necessary support and to work with the Government of Afghanist an and humanitarian organizations to respond effectively to the drought needs identified in the revised Afghanistan Humanitarian Response Plan without delay, prior to the onset of winter;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2018), para. 35
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- Recalling the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 and its guiding principles, 26 and recalling also its promotion of regular disaster preparedness, response and recovery exercises, at the national and local levels, with a view to ensuring rapid and effective response to disasters and related displacement, including access to essential food and non-food relief supplies, as appropriate to local needs,
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan and the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security (2000), para. 45
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- 20. Expresses deep concern at the lack of tangible progress in the Taliban’s investigations of the death, serious injury or disappearance of international or national staff members and other persons employed by the United Nations, in particular the killing of the two Afghan staff members of the World Food Programme and of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Jalalabad and of the Military Adviser to the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul, and once again urges the Taliban to proceed with the immediate and thorough investigation of these cases and to inform the United Nations about the progress of their investigation without further delay;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2018), para. 37
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- 17. Reaffirms the importance of timely and adequate assistance and protection for refugees, returnees and displaced persons, also reaffirms that assistance and protection are mutually reinforcing and that inadequate material assistance and food shortages undermine protection, notes the importance of a rights- and community- based approach in engaging constructively with individual refugees, returnees and displaced persons and their communities so as to achieve fair and equitable access to food and other forms of material assistance, and expresses concern with regard to situations in which minimum standards of assistance are not met, including those in which adequate needs assessments have yet to be undertaken;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2019), para. 44
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- 19. Recognizes the need to strengthen national commitments and international assistance, upon the request of and in cooperation with affected countries, towards the full realization and protection of the right to food, and in particular to develop national protection mechanisms for people forced to leave their homes and land because of hunger or humanitarian emergencies affecting the enjoyment of the right to food;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2019), para. 060
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- 26. Urges Member States, the United Nations and other relevant organizations to take further steps to provide a coordinated emergency response to the food and nutrition needs of affected populations, while aiming to ensure that such steps are supportive of national strategies and programmes aimed at improving food security and nutrition;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2018), para. 31
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- Recalling also the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 12 and its guiding principles, which, inter alia, recognize the importance of promoting regular disaster preparedness and response and recovery exercises, with a view to ensuring rapid and effective response to disasters and related displacement, including access to essential food and non-food relief supplies, as appropriate to local needs, as well as of fostering collaboration across global and regional mechanisms and institutions for the implementation and coherence of instruments and tools relevant to disaster risk reduction, such as for climate change, biodiversity, sustainable development, poverty eradication, environment, agriculture, health, food and nutrition and others, as appropriate,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (2013), para. 10
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- 4. Expresses concern at the persistent problems of the large number of internally displaced persons worldwide, in particular the risk of extreme poverty and socioeconomic exclusion, their limited access to humanitarian assistance and long-term development efforts and assistance, vulnerability to violations of international law, in particular human rights law, and difficulties resulting from their specific situation, such as lack of food, shelter, health services and education, and issues pertinent during their reintegration, including, in appropriate cases, the need for the restitution of or compensation for property;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2018), para. 43
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- 33. Expresses deep concern about the long-term impact of continued cuts in food rations on the health and well-being of refugees globally, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, and especially its impact on children, owing to insufficient funding and increased costs, and in this regard calls upon States to ensure sustained support for the Office of the High Commissioner and the World Food Programme, while looking to provide refugees with alternatives to food assistanc e, pending a durable solution;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (2015), para. 11
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- Noting that degraded land, if recovered, would, inter alia, contribute to restoring natural resources, thus potentially improving food security and nutrition in the affected countries, and in the process could, inter alia, contribute to the absorption of carbon emissions,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2017), para. 42
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- 31. Expresses deep concern about the long-term impact of cuts in food rations on the health and well-being of refugees globally, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, and especially its impact on children, owing to insufficient funding and increased costs, and in this regard calls upon States to ensure sustained support for the Office of the High Commissioner and the World Food Programme, while looking to provide refugees with alternatives to food assistance, pending a durable solution;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2019), para. 31
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- (d) Promoting equal access to food, including through full transparency regarding the provision of humanitarian assistance so that such assistance is genuinely provided to vulnerable persons, including individuals in detention;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (1995), para. 19
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- Aware that the refugee population in the refugee camps throughout Djibouti is in a precarious situation, facing the threat of famine, malnutrition and disease, and that it needs adequate external assistance for the provision of foodstuff, medical assistance and the necessary infrastructure for shelter,
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2018), para. 08
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- Expressing grave concern about funding gaps in the budgets of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Food Programme, which are among the most underfunded, in responding to various refugee situations in different parts of Africa, which are a major factor leading to the deterioration in living conditions in many refugee camps in Africa,
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2015), para. 28
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- 14. Reaffirms the importance of timely and adequate assistance and protection for refugees, returnees and displaced persons, also reaffirms that assistance and protection are mutually reinforcing and that inadequate material assistance and food shortages undermine protection, notes the importance of a rights- and community-based approach in engaging constructively with individual refugees, returnees and displaced persons and their communities so as to achieve fair and equitable access to food and other forms of material assistance, and expresses concern with regard to situations in which minimum standards of assistance are not met, including those in which adequate needs assessments have yet to be undertaken;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2008), para. 31
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- 14. Recognizes the need to strengthen national commitment as well as international assistance, upon request and in cooperation with affected countries, towards a better realization and protection of the right to food, and in particular to develop national protection mechanisms for people forced to leave their homes and land because of hunger or natural or man-made disasters affecting the enjoyment of the right to food;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2020), para. 39
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- Recalling also the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 13 and its guiding principles, which, inter alia, recognize the importance of promoting regular disaster preparedness and response and recovery exercises, with a view to ensuring rapid and effective response to disasters and related displacement, including access to essential food and non-food relief supplies, as appropriate to local needs, as well as of fostering collaboration across global and regional mechanisms and institutions for the implementation and coherence of instruments and tools relevant to disaster risk reduction, such as for climate change adaptation, biodiversity, sustainable development, poverty eradication, environment, agriculture, health, food and nutrition and others, as appropriate,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2020), para. 46
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- Paragraph text
- Recalling the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 and its guiding principles, 27 and recalling also its promotion of regular disaster risk preparedness, prevention, response and recovery exercises, at the national and local levels, with a view to ensuring rapid and effective response to disasters and related displacement, including access to essential food and non-food relief supplies, as appropriate to local needs,
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2017), para. 61
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- (k) To ensure full, safe and unhindered access to humanitarian aid, as well as to critical data, and take measures to allow humanitarian agencies to secure the impartial delivery of such aid to all parts of the country, including detention facilities, on the basis of need in accordance with humanitarian principles, as it pledged to do, to ensure access to adequate food and implement more effective food security and nutrition policies, including through sustainable agriculture, sound food production and distribution measures and the allocation of more funds to the food sector, and to ensure adequate monitoring of humanitarian assistance;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2010), para. 24
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- Paragraph text
- 8. Urges Member States, the United Nations and other relevant organizations to take further steps to provide a coordinated emergency response to the food and nutrition needs of affected populations, while aiming to ensure that such steps are supportive of national strategies and programmes aimed at improving food security;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2015), para. 40
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- Paragraph text
- 19. Urges Member States, the United Nations and other relevant organizations to take further steps to provide a coordinated emergency response to the food and nutrition needs of affected populations, while aiming to ensure that such steps are supportive of national strategies and programmes aimed at improving food security;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2019), para. 18
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- Stressing the obligation of all States and parties to an armed conflict to protect civilians, in accordance with international humanitarian law, and calling upon Member States, the United Nations and other relevant organizations to take further steps to provide a coordinated emergency response to the food and nutrition needs of affected populations, while aiming to ensure that such steps are supportive of national strategies and programmes aimed at improving food security and nutrition,
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2017), para. 29
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- Recalling also the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 12 and its guiding principles, which, inter alia, recognize the importance of promoting regular disaster preparedness and response and recovery exercises, with a view to ensuring rapid and effective response to disasters and related displacement, including access to essential food and non-food relief supplies, as appropriate to local needs, as well as of fostering collaboration across global and regional mechanisms and institutions for the implementation and coherence of instruments and tools relevant to disaster risk reduction, such as for climate change, biodiversity, sustainable development, poverty eradication, environme nt, agriculture, health, food and nutrition and others, as appropriate,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
Paragraph
Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2020), para. 060
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- Paragraph text
- 26. Urges Member States, the United Nations and other relevant organizations to take further steps to provide a coordinated emergency response to the food and nutrition needs of affected populations, while aiming to ensure that such steps are supportive of national strategies and programmes aimed at improving food security and nutrition;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2016), para. 50
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- Paragraph text
- 23. Recognizes the need to strengthen national commitment as well as international assistance, upon the request of and in cooperation with the affected countries, towards the full realization and protection of the right to food, and in particular to develop national protection mechanisms for people forced to leave their homes and land because of hunger or humanitarian emergencies affecting their enjoyment of the right to food;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2011), para. 25
- Paragraph text
- 15. Reaffirms the importance of timely and adequate assistance and protection for refugees, returnees and displaced persons, also reaffirms that assistance and protection are mutually reinforcing and that inadequate material assistance and food shortages undermine protection, notes the importance of a rights- and community-based approach in engaging constructively with individual refugees, returnees and displaced persons and their communities so as to achieve fair and equitable access to food and other forms of material assistance, and expresses concern in regard to situations in which minimum standards of assistance are not met, including those in which adequate needs assessments have yet to be undertaken;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan (2011), para. 34
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- Paragraph text
- 6. Urges the full implementation of the Access and Movement Agreement of 15 November 2005, particularly the urgent reopening of the Rafah and Karni crossings, which is crucial to ensuring the passage of foodstuffs and essential supplies, as well as the access of United Nations agencies to and within the Occupied Palestinian Territory;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Situation of human rights in South Sudan (2019), para. 12
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- Expressing grave concern that up to 6.2 million South Sudanese people are classified as food insecure by the International Food Security Phase Classification and that 1.9 million are internally displaced within South Sudan and approximately 2.3 million are displaced outside the country, according to statistics of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, noting that the humanitarian crisis is caused primarily by armed conflict, deeply concerned by the targeting and occupation of schools and hospitals by parties to the conflict, commending humanitarian agencies for their continued assistance to the affected populations, and recalling the need for all parties to the conflict to allow and facilitate the full, safe, rapid and unhindered access of relief personnel, equipment and supplies free of unnecessary duties and taxes and the timely delivery of humanitarian assistance to all those in need, in particular to internally displaced persons and refugees, based on the United Nations guiding principles of humanitarian assistance, including humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Human rights of internally displaced persons (2012), para. 26
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- 11. Expresses concern at the persistent problems of the large numbers of internally displaced persons worldwide, in particular the risk of extreme poverty and socioeconomic exclusion, their limited access to humanitarian assistance, vulnerability to human rights violations and difficulties resulting from their specific situation, such as lack of food, medication or shelter, and issues pertinent during their reintegration, including, in appropriate cases, the need for the restitution of or compensation for property;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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