RES/32/8 Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food

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Human Rights Council Thirty-second session

Agenda item 3

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 30 June 2016

32/8. Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food

The Human Rights Council,

Recalling all previous resolutions of the General Assembly and the Human Rights

Council on the right to food, and all resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights on

the issue,

Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the

Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the

Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that all mandate holders shall discharge their duties

in accordance with these resolutions and the annexes thereto,

1 Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food

for a period of three years to enable the mandate holder to continue to work in accordance

with the mandate established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 6/2 of 27

September 2007;

2. 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 continuation of the effective fulfilment of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur;

3. Calls upon all Governments to cooperate with and assist the Special

Rapporteur in her task by supplying all necessary information requested by the mandate

holder, and to give serious consideration to responding favourably to the requests of the

Special Rapporteur to visit their countries to enable her to fulfil the mandate more

effectively;

4. Requests the Special Rapporteur to report annually on the implementation of

the mandate to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly in accordance to their

respective programmes of work.

42nd meeting

30 June 2016

[Adopted without a vote.]