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32. Invites all relevant international organizations, including the World Bank
and the International Monetary Fund, to continue 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;
33. Takes note with appreciation of the interim report of the Special
Rapporteur; 13
34. Supports the realization of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur, as
extended by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 13/4 of 24 March 2010; 14
35. Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to provide all the human and financial
resources necessary for the effective fulfilment of the mandate of the Special
Rapporteur;
36. 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), 15 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;
37. Recalls general comment No. 15 (2002) of the Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights on the right to water (articles 11 and 12 of the
Covenant), 16 in which the Committee noted, inter alia, the importance of ensuring
sustainable access to water resources for human consumption and agriculture in
realization of the right to adequate food;
38. 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 Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations in November 2004,6 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;
39. Calls upon all Governments to cooperate with and assist the Special
Rapporteur in his task, to supply all necessary information requested by him and to
give serious consideration to responding favourably to the requests of the Special
Rapporteur to visit their countries to enable him to fulfil his mandate more
effectively;
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13
See A/67/268.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum
(A/65/53 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
15
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2000, Supplement No. 2 and corrigendum
(E/2000/22 and Corr.1), annex V.
16
Ibid., 2003, Supplement No. 2 (E/2003/22), annex IV.
14
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