United Nations
A/RES/68/177
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 January 2014
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 69 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/456/Add.2)]
68/177. The right to food
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Charter of the United Nations and its importance for the
promotion and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all,
Reaffirming also all previous resolutions and decisions on the right to food
adopted within the framework of the United Nations,
Recalling 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 in particular
Millennium Development Goal 1 on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by
2015,
Recalling also 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 and the Declaration of the World Food Summit: five
years later, adopted in Rome on 13 June 2002, 5
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, 6
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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
Resolution 55/2.
4
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
5
A/57/499, annex.
6
E/CN.4/2005/131, annex.
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