A/RES/56/155
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 February 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 119 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/56/583/Add.2)]
56/155. The right to food
The General Assembly,
Recalling all Commission on Human Rights resolutions in this regard, in particular
resolution 2000/10 of 17 April 2000,1 and taking note of Commission resolution
2001/25 of 20 April 2001,2
Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,3 which provides that
everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for her/his health and well-being,
including food,
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,
Recalling the Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and
Malnutrition,5
Bearing in mind the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the Plan of
Action of the World Food Summit,6
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated,
Recognizing that the problems of hunger and food insecurity have global
dimensions and that they are likely to persist and even to increase dramatically in some
regions unless urgent, determined and concerted action is taken, given the anticipated
increase in the world’s population and the stress on natural resources,
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2000, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum
(E/2000/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
2
Ibid., 2001, Supplement No. 3 (E/2001/23), chap. II, sect. A.
3
Resolution 217 A (III).
4
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
5
Report of the World Food Conference, Rome, 5–16 November 1974 (United Nations publication, Sales
No. E.75.II.A.3), chap. I.
6
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit,
13–17 November 1996 (WFS 96/REP), part one, appendix.
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