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6.
Reaffirms that the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the
Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security, adopted by the General
Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in November 2004
represent a practical tool to promote the realization of the right to food for all, contribute to the
achievement of food security and thus provide an additional instrument in the attainment of
internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium
Declaration;
7.
Requests the Special Rapporteur to submit a report on the implementation of the
present resolution to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session and to the Council in 2008,
in accordance with its annual programme of work;
8.
Invites Governments, relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes,
treaty bodies and civil society actors, including non-governmental organizations, as well as the
private sector, to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur in the fulfilment of his/her
mandate, inter alia through the submission of comments and suggestions on ways and means of
realizing the right to food;
9.
Decides to continue its consideration of this matter under the same agenda item.
20th meeting
27 September 2007
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. III.]
6/3. Human rights and international solidarity
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/55 of 20 April 2005, and taking
note of the report presented to the Council by the independent expert on human rights and
international solidarity (A/HRC/4/8),
Recalling also the resolutions 5/1 “Institution-building of the United Nations Human
Rights Council” and 5/2 “Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-holders of the
Human Rights Council” of 18 June 2007 and stressing that the mandate-holder shall discharge
his/her duties in accordance with these resolutions and their annexes,
Underlining that the processes of promoting and protecting human rights should be
conducted in conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations
and international law,
Recalling the importance, in the view to the promotion and protection of international
solidarity, of the declarations and programmes of action of international conferences such as the
World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in 1993, the International Conference on
Financing for Development held in Monterrey in 2002, the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development held in Rio in 1992, the World Summit on Sustainable
Development held in Johannesburg in 2002, and the World Conference on Disaster Reduction
held in Kobe in 2005,
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