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The right to food
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling all previous resolutions of the General Assembly and the Human Rights
Council on the right to food, in particular Assembly resolution 65/220 of 21 December
2010 and Council resolution 13/4 of 24 March 2010, as well as all resolutions of the
Commission on Human Rights on the issue,
Recalling also the seventh special session of the Human Rights Council, at which
the Council analysed the negative impact of the worsening of the world food crisis on the
realization of the right to food for all, and Council resolutions S-7/1 of 22 May 2008, 9/6 of
18 September 2008 and 12/10 of 1 October 2009,
Recalling further 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 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, the World Food
Summit Plan of Action and the Declaration of the World Food Summit, adopted on 13 June
2002, the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, adopted on 16 November
2009, and the Marrakesh Ministerial Decision on Measures Concerning the Possible
Negative Effects of the Reform Programme on Least Developed and Net Food-importing
Countries, adopted on 15 April 1994,
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,
Recalling the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security contained
in the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, adopted on 16 November 2009,
Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March
2006,
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated, and that they must be treated globally, in a fair and equal manner, on the same
footing and with the same emphasis,
Reaffirming also that a peaceful, stable and enabling political, social and economic
environment, at both the national and the international levels, is the essential foundation
that will enable States to give adequate priority to food security and poverty eradication,
Reiterating, as in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the Declaration
of the World Food Summit: five years later, that food should not be used as an instrument
of political or economic pressure, and reaffirming in this regard the importance of
international cooperation and solidarity, as well as the necessity of refraining from
unilateral measures that are not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the
United Nations and that endanger food security,
Convinced that each State should adopt a strategy consistent with its resources and
capacities to achieve its individual goals in implementing the recommendations contained
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