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ICESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966, para. 2a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [2. The States Parties to the present Covenant, recognizing the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, shall take, individually and through international co-operation, the measures, including specific programmes, which are needed:] (a) To improve methods of production, conservation and distribution of food by making full use of technical and scientific knowledge, by disseminating knowledge of the principles of nutrition and by developing or reforming agrarian systems in such a way as to achieve the most efficient development and utilization of natural resources; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 1966 | ||
ICESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966, para. 2b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [2. The States Parties to the present Covenant, recognizing the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, shall take, individually and through international co-operation, the measures, including specific programmes, which are needed:] (b) Taking into account the problems of both food-importing and food-exporting countries, to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 1966 | ||
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. In order to promote the exercise of this right and eradicate malnutrition, the States Parties undertake to improve methods of production, supply and distribution of food, and to this end, agree to promote greater international cooperation in support of the relevant national policies. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1988 | ||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 2b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. For the purpose of paragraph 1: (b) "Extermination" includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population; | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | International treaty |
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| 1998 | ||
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. Everyone has the right to adequate nutrition which guarantees the possibility of enjoying the highest level of physical, emotional and intellectual development. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1988 | ||
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 55. To the fullest extent of the means available to it, the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring the food and medical supplies of the population; it should, in particular, bring in the necessary foodstuffs, medical stores and other articles if the resources of the occupied territory are inadequate. The Occupying Power may not requisition foodstuffs, articles or medical supplies available in the occupied territory, except for use by the occupation forces and administration personnel, and then only if the requirements of the civilian population have been taken into account. Subject to the provisions of other international Conventions, the Occupying Power shall make arrangements to ensure that fair value is paid for any requisitioned goods. The Protecting Power shall, at any time, be at liberty to verify the state of the food and medical supplies in occupied territories, except where temporary restrictions are made necessary by imperative military requirements. | International Committee of the Red Cross | International treaty |
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| 1949 | ||
Right to food 2012, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming also all previous resolutions and decisions on the right to food adopted within the framework of the United Nations, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Right to food 2012, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Resolved to act to ensure that the human rights perspective is taken into account at the national, regional and international levels in measures to address the global food crisis, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Right to food 2012, para. 23 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls for the early conclusion and a successful, development-oriented outcome of the Doha Round of trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization as a contribution to creating international conditions that permit the full realization of the right to food; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Right to food 2012, para. 26 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes that the promises made at the World Food Summit in 1996 to halve the number of persons who are undernourished are not being fulfilled, while recognizing the efforts of Member States in this regard, and once again invites all international financial and development institutions, as well as the relevant United Nations agencies and funds, to give priority to and provide the necessary funding to realize the aim of halving by 2015 the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, as well as the right to food as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the United Nations Millennium Declaration;3 | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Right to food 2004, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2004 | ||
Right to food 2004, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcomes the work already done by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in promoting the right to adequate food, in particular its general comment No. 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food (article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), in which the Committee affirmed, inter alia, that the right to adequate food is indivisibly linked to the inherent dignity of the human person and is indispensable for the fulfilment of other human rights enshrined in the International Bill of Human Rights, and is also inseparable from social justice, requiring the adoption of appropriate economic, environmental and social policies, at both the national and the international levels, oriented to the eradication of poverty and the fulfilment of all human rights for all; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2004 | ||
Right to food 2007, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Right to food 2007, para. 19 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes that the promises made at the World Food Summit in 1996 to halve the number of persons who are undernourished are not being fulfilled, and invites once again all international financial and development institutions, as well as the relevant United Nations agencies and funds, to give priority to and provide the necessary funding to realize the aim of halving by 2015 the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, as well as the right to food as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security6 and the United Nations Millennium Declaration;4 | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Right to food 2007, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages all States to take steps with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of the right to food, including steps to promote the conditions for everyone to be free from hunger and, as soon as possible, to enjoy fully the right to food, and to create and adopt national plans to combat hunger, and recognizes in this regard the great efforts and positive developments with respect to the right to food in some developing countries and regions, including those highlighted in the interim report of the Special Rapporteur; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Right to food 2007, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting that environmental degradation, desertification and global climate change are exacerbating destitution and desperation, causing a negative impact on the realization of the right to food, in particular in developing countries, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Right to food 2008, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling also 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, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Right to food 2008, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirms that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human dignity and therefore requires the adoption of urgent measures at the national, regional and international levels for its elimination; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Right to food 2008, para. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes that the promises made at the World Food Summit in 1996 to halve the number of persons who are undernourished are not being fulfilled, and invites once again all international financial and development institutions, as well as the relevant United Nations agencies and funds, to give priority to and provide the necessary funding to realize the aim of halving by 2015 the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, as well as the right to food as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security5 and the United Nations Millennium Declaration;3 | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Right to food 2008, para. 30 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide all the necessary human and financial resources for the effective fulfilment of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Right to food 2008, para. 31 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcomes the work already done by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in promoting the right to adequate food, in particular its General Comment No. 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food (article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), in which the Committee affirmed, inter alia, that the right to adequate food is indivisibly linked to the inherent dignity of the human person and is indispensable for the fulfilment of other human rights enshrined in the International Bill of Human Rights, and is also inseparable from social justice, requiring the adoption of appropriate economic, environmental and social policies, at both the national and the international levels, oriented to the eradication of poverty and the fulfilment of all human rights for all; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Right to food 2008, para. 38 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Decides to continue the consideration of the question at its sixty-fourth session under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”. | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Right to food 2009, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling also 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, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Right to food 2009, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming also 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, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Right to food 2009, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Taking note of the final Declaration adopted at the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on 10 March 2006,[8] | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Right to food 2009, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirms that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human dignity and therefore requires the adoption of urgent measures at the national, regional and international levels for its elimination; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Right to food 2009, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses that all States should make all efforts to ensure that their international policies of a political and economic nature, including international trade agreements, do not have a negative impact on the right to food in other countries; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS 2011, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognize that agrarian economies are heavily affected by HIV and AIDS, which debilitate their communities and families with negative consequences for poverty eradication, that people die prematurely from AIDS because, inter alia, poor nutrition exacerbates the impact of HIV on the immune system and compromises its ability to respond to opportunistic infections and diseases, and that HIV treatment, including antiretroviral treatment, should be complemented with adequate food and nutrition; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2011 | ||
Right to food 2010, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming also the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security contained in the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, adopted in Rome on 16 November 2009, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Right to food 2010, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming further 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, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2010 |