A/RES/78/198
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 71 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/481/Add.2, para. 139)]
78/198.
The right to food
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Charter of the United Nations and its importance for the
promotion and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all,
Reaffirming also previous resolutions and decisions on the right to food adopted
within the framework of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 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, 2 the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3 in particular Millennium
Development Goal 1 on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, and the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development, 4 in particular the Sustainable Development
Goals on ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition and promoting
sustainable agriculture and on ending poverty in all its forms everywhere,
Recognizing that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals can help to
ensure the end of hunger in all its forms by 2030 and to achieve food security,
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23-26038 (E)
Resolution 217 A (III).
Report of the World Food Conference, Rome, 5–16 November 1974 (United Nations publication,
Sales No. E.75.II.A.3), chap. I.
Resolution 55/2.
Resolution 70/1.
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