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UN Human Rights Council Advisory
Committee
Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, composed of 18 experts, has been established to function as a think-tank for the Council and work at its direction. The role of the Advisory Committee is to provide thematic expertise in the manner and form requested by the Council, focusing mainly on studies and research-based advice.
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8th Session - 2012 - "Assigns the preparation of a preliminary
study on rural women and their enjoyment of the right to food to the drafting
group on the right to food, to be presented to the Advisory Committee at its
ninth session."
8/2 Right to food
The Human
Rights Council Advisory Committee,
Recalling the Human
Rights Council resolutions on the right to food, in particular resolutions 7/14
of 27 March 2008, 10/12 of 26 March 2009, 13/4 of 24 March 2010 and 16/27 of 25
March 2011,
Recalling also the
request of the Human Rights Council in its resolution 16/27 that the Advisory
Committee undertake, as a follow-up to the study on discrimination in the
context of the right to food,[1][1] comprehensive
studies on the urban poor and their enjoyment of the right to food, rural women
and their enjoyment of the right to food, and the relationship between severe
malnutrition and childhood diseases,
1. Welcomes the study on severe malnutrition and childhood
diseases with children affected by noma as an example and the human rights
principles and guidelines to improve the protection of children at risk or
affected by malnutrition, specifically at risk of or affected by noma, annexed
thereto, prepared by its drafting group;[2][2]
2. Submits herewith to the Human Rights Council the
above-mentioned study and the annex thereto;[3][3]
3. Requests the Human Rights Council to consider the
recommendations made by the Advisory Committee in the above-mentioned study,
and to encourage States to implement the human rights principles and guidelines
to improve the protection of children at risk or affected by malnutrition,
specifically at risk of or affected by noma, annexed thereto;
4. Welcomes the preliminary study on the theme “promotion
of human rights of the urban poor: strategies and best practices” prepared by
its drafting group;[4][4]
5. Invites the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights to collect the views and comments on the
preliminary study of all Member States, relevant United Nations special
agencies and programmes and all other relevant stakeholders, as requested by
the Human Rights Council, in order that the Advisory Committee may take them
into account in the preparation of its final study;
6. Assigns the completion of the above-mentioned study to
the drafting group on the right to food, to be presented to the Advisory
Committee at its ninth session for submission to the Human Rights Council at
its twenty-second session;
7. Welcomes the concept note for the preliminary study on
rural women and the right to food prepared by the drafting group;[5][5]
8. Assigns the preparation of a preliminary study on rural
women and their enjoyment of the right to food to the drafting group on the
right to food, to be presented to the Advisory Committee at its ninth session.