A/RES/69/177
The right to food
mind the need to avoid any negative impact on the enjoyment of the right to food for
all people at all times;
21. Requests all States and private actors, as well as international
organizations, within their respective mandates, to take fully into account the need
to promote the effective realization of the right to food for all, including in the
ongoing negotiations in different fields;
22. Recognizes the need to strengthen national commitment as well as
international assistance, upon the request of and in cooperation with the affected
countries, towards the full realization and protection of the right to food, and in
particular to develop national protection mechanisms for people forced to leave their
homes and land because of hunger or humanitarian emergencies affecting their
enjoyment of the right to food;
23. Takes note with appreciation of the growing movement, in different
regions of the world, towards the adoption of framework laws, national strategies
and measures in support of the full realization of the right to food for all;
24. Stresses the need to make efforts to mobilize and optimize the allocation
and utilization of technical and financial resources from all sources, including
external debt relief for developing countries, and to reinforce national actions to
implement sustainable food security policies;
25. Calls for the conclusion and a successful, development-oriented outcome
of the Doha Round of trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization as a
contribution to creating international conditions that permit the full realization of
the right to food;
26. Stresses that all States should make all efforts to ensure that their
international policies of a political and economic nature, including international
trade agreements, do not have a negative impact on the right to food in other
countries;
27. Recalls the importance of the New York Declaration on Action against
Hunger and Poverty, and recommends the continuation of efforts aimed at
identifying additional sources of financing for the fight against hunger and poverty,
as well as non-communicable diseases;
28. Recognizes that the promises made at the World Food Summit in 1996 to
halve the number of persons who are undernourished are not being fulfilled, while
recognizing the efforts of Member States in this regard, and once again invites all
international financial and development institutions, as well as the relevant United
Nations agencies and funds, to give priority to and provide the necessary funding to
realize the aim of halving by 2015 the proportion of people who suffer from hunger,
as well as the right to food as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food
Security5 and the United Nations Millennium Declaration;3
29. Reaffirms that integrating food and nutritional support, with the goal that
all people at all times will have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet
their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life, is part of a
comprehensive effort to improve public health, including the response to the spread
of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other communicable diseases;
30. Urges States to give adequate priority in their development strategies and
expenditures to the realization of the right to food;
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