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(i) To submit a report on the implementation of his/her mandate to the Council in
accordance with its annual programme of work;
3.
Requests all Governments to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur in the
performance of the task and duties mandated, to furnish necessary information requested in
his/her communications and to react promptly to the Special Rapporteur’s urgent appeals;
4.
Encourages all Governments to respond favourably to the requests of the
Special Rapporteur to visit their countries so as to enable him/her to fulfil the mandate
effectively;
5.
Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights to provide all the human, technical and financial assistance to the
Special Rapporteur necessary for the effective fulfilment of his/her mandate;
6.
Decides to continue the consideration of this question in accordance with its
programme of work.
40th meeting
27 March 2008
Adopted without a vote. See chapter III.
7/14. The right to food
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling all previous resolutions on the issue of the right to food, in particular
General Assembly resolution 62/164 of 18 December 2007 and Council resolution 6/2 of
27 September 2007, as well as all resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights in this
regard,
Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 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 and the
United Nations Millennium Declaration,
Recalling further the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, 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,
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