A/RES/70/154
United Nations
Distr.: General
7 March 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/489/Add.2)]
70/154. 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 a nd
Malnutrition, 2 the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3 in particular
Millennium Development Goal 1 on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by
2015, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 4 in particular the
Sustainable Development Goals on ending hunger, achieving food security and
improved nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture and on ending poverty in
all its forms everywhere,
Recalling also the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 5 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, 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, 6
Reaffirming the importance of 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 Counci l of
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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
Resolution 70/1.
5
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
6
A/57/499, annex.
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