A/HRC/19/2
11.
Requests the Special Rapporteur to report regularly to the Human Rights
Council and the General Assembly in accordance with their respective programmes of
work;
12.
Decides to continue its consideration of this matter under the same agenda
item in accordance with its programme of work.
52nd meeting
22 March 2012
[Adopted without a vote.]
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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 resolutions 13/4 of 24 March 2010 and 16/27 of 25 March 2011, 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 right of everyone to adequate food, including 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,
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 international levels, is the essential foundation that
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