A/HRC/S-7/2 page 5 5. Calls upon States Members of the United Nations and other relevant stakeholders to participate actively in the High-level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy, to be held from 3 to 5 June 2008, in Rome, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, while taking note of the results of the special meeting of the Economic and Social Council on this issue, held on 20 May 2008; 6. Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to extend an invitation to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and to the Special Rapporteur on the right to food to attend and actively participate in the aforementioned High-level Conference, so as to help to mainstream a human rights perspective in the analysis of the world food crisis, with a focus on the realization of the right to food; 7. Requests the Special Rapporteur to make a presentation to the Council at its eighth session on his participation in the meeting mentioned in paragraph 5 above, and on his initial recommendations regarding actions required, at all levels, to promote, respect and protect the right to food and freedom from hunger in the midst of the current food crisis, when actions are called for to promote mid- and long-term food security; 8. Also requests the Special Rapporteur to present a report to the Council at its ninth session, inviting comments from States and other relevant actors, on the impact of the global food crisis on the protection of the right to food and the required remedies from a human rights perspective; 9. Requests the High Commissioner for Human Rights to bring the present resolution to the attention of all relevant international organizations and agencies; 10. Requests the Special Rapporteur on the right to food to continue reporting on further developments on this issue to the Council and the General Assembly; 11. Decides to remain seized of the implementation of the present resolution. 2nd meeting 22 May 2008 Resolution adopted, as orally revised, without a vote; see chapter II.

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