Right to food 2008, para. 31

Paragraphe
Paragraph text
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;
Status juridique
Negotiated soft law
Organe
United Nations General Assembly
Type de document
Resolution
Mode d'adoption
Vote
Thèmes
  • Environment
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Personnes concernées
  • All
Année
2008
Type de paragraphe
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Right to food (2008), A/RES/63/187, OP 31.
Paragraph info
OP
Paragraph number
31