A/RES/62/164
United Nations
Distr.: General
13 March 2008
General Assembly
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 70 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2007
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/62/439/Add.2)]
62/164. The right to food
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on the issue of the right to food, in
particular resolution 61/163 of 19 December 2006, and Human Rights Council
resolution 6/2 of 27 September 2007, 1 as well as all resolutions of the Commission
on Human Rights in this regard,
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Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 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 3 and the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 4
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Recalling further 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,
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Bearing in mind the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World
Food Summit Plan of Action 6 and the Declaration of the World Food Summit: five
years later, adopted in Rome on 13 June 2002, 7
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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, 8
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1
See A/HRC/6/L.11. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session,
Supplement No. 53 (A/63/53).
2
Resolution 217 A (III).
3
Report of the World Food Conference, Rome, 5–16 November 1974 (United Nations publication, Sales
No. E.75.II.A.3), chap. I.
4
See resolution 55/2.
5
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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.
7
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit: five years
later, 10–13 June 2002, part one, appendix; see also A/57/499, annex.
8
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the Council of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Session, Rome,
22–27 November 2004 (CL 127/REP), appendix D; see also E/CN.4/2005/131, annex.
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