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achievement of sustainable food security, while recognizing that each country has
the primary responsibility for ensuring the implementation of national programmes
and strategies in this regard;
15. Calls upon Member States, the United Nations system and other relevant
stakeholders to support national efforts aimed at responding rapidly to the food
crises currently occurring across Africa;
16. Invites all relevant international organizations, including the World Bank
and the International Monetary Fund, to promote policies and projects that have a
positive impact on the right to food, to ensure that partners respect the right to food
in the implementation of common projects, to support strategies of Member States
aimed at the fulfilment of the right to food and to avoid any actions that could have
a negative impact on the realization of the right to food;
17. Takes note of the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the
Commission on Human Rights on the right to food, 9 and also takes note of his
valuable work in the promotion of the right to food;
18. Supports the realization of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur as
extended by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 2003/25 of 22 April
2003; 10
19. Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights to provide all the necessary human and financial
resources for the effective fulfilment of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur;
20. Welcomes the work already done by the Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights in promoting the right to adequate food, in particular
its General Comment No. 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food (article 11 of the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), 11 in which the
Committee affirmed, inter alia, that the right to adequate food is indivisibly linked
to the inherent dignity of the human person and is indispensable for the fulfilment
of other human rights enshrined in the International Bill of Human Rights, and is
also inseparable from social justice, requiring the adoption of appropriate
economic, environmental and social policies, at both the national and the
international levels, oriented to the eradication of poverty and the fulfilment of all
human rights for all;
21. Recalls General Comment No. 15 (2002) of the Committee on the right
to water (articles 11 and 12 of the Covenant), 12 in which the Committee noted, inter
alia, the importance of ensuring sustainable water resources for human consumption
and agriculture in realization of the right to adequate food;
22. Welcomes the adoption by the Council of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations of the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the
Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National
Food Security,8 which 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
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9
See A/60/350.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 3 (E/2003/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
11
Ibid., 2000, Supplement No. 2 and corrigendum (E/2000/22 and Corr.1), annex V.
12
Ibid., 2003, Supplement No. 2 (E/2003/22), annex IV.
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