Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

A/HRC/RES/32/8View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2008–2016

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2016	A/HRC/RES/32/8	Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food	268	21%Compare
2008	A/HRC/RES/6/2	Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food	861	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Right to Food Special Rapporteurs

What’s in this document?

3 operative paragraphs

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;

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;

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.

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