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A/HRC/S-7/1 page 6 Annex II Human Rights Council Special session draft resolution Resolution 7/… “The negative impact on the realization of the right to food of the worsening of the world food crisis, caused inter alia by the soaring food prices” The Human Rights Council, Recalling all previous resolutions and decisions on the issue of the right to food adopted in the framework of the United Nations, in particular General Assembly resolution 62/164 of 18 December 2007 and Human Rights Council resolution 7/14 of 27 March 2008, Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 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 and the United Nations Millennium Declaration, Recalling further the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in which the fundamental right of every person to be free from hunger is recognized, Bearing in mind the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action and the Declaration of the World Food Summit: five years later, adopted in Rome on 13 June 2002, Reaffirming the concrete recommendations contained in 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, Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, and that they must be treated globally, in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis, A/HRC/S-7/1 page 7 Reaffirming also that a peaceful, stable and enabling political, social and economic environment, at both the national and the international levels, is the essential foundation that will enable States to give adequate priority to food security and poverty eradication, Recognizing that the worsening of the world food crisis, caused inter alia by the soaring food prices, creates a situation, in which the right to adequate food is threatened to be violated on an unprecedented scale, 1. Expresses grave concern at the worsening of the world food crisis, caused inter alia by the soaring food prices, which seriously undermines the realization of the right to food for all; 2.

We are seeing poverty levels growing, food supplies falling and prices soaring, children missing vaccinations, meals and schooling, and sexual and gender-based violence in- creasing.

Calculations based on data from the 2012 China Family Panel Studies. 15 National Human Rights Action Plan of China. 16 Martin King Whyte, “Soaring income gaps: China in comparative perspective”, Daedalus, vol. 143, No. 2 (spring 2014). 17 The Economist, “Up on the farm”, 14 May 2016. 18 Martin King Whyte, “Soaring income gaps”, p. 41. (...) While this language shows strong commitment and political will on the part of the Government and the Party, it also highlights the marginal role accorded to civil society and individuals living in poverty to shape anti-poverty policies and 22 Shen Ke and others, “A benevolent State”, p. 20. 23 Martin King Whyte, “Soaring income gaps”, p. 47. 24 National Human Rights Action Plan of China. 25 Chunni Zhang and others, “Are poverty rates underestimated in China?

A/HRC/26/G/2 GE.14-04023 11 The release of the July 4 Joint Statement – three principles for the national reunification – and the soaring aspiration of the reunification in 1970s made the US to be frightened and cling to policy of “two Koreas”, consisting of “Simultaneous Admission to UN” and “Cross-Recognition”.

Продовольственный кризис 2008 года подверг миллионы людей в Азиатско-Тихоокеанском 9 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “Soaring food prices: facts, perspectives, impacts and actions required”.

АСЕАН также обладает механизмами, которые 23 Colombo Statement on Food Security, accessed from www.saarc-sec.org/data/summit15/colombo statement on food security.htm on 1 September 2008. 24 Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN ready to tackle soaring food prices (30 April 2008), accessed from www.aseansec.org/21492.htm in July 2008.

“Briefing paper: Hunger on the rise – soaring food prices add 75 million people to global hunger rolls”, 17 September 2008, cited in ESCAP, Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2009: Addressing Triple Threats to Development (United Nations publication, Sales No.

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