As the United Nations specialized agency with the mandate to end hunger and malnutrition in all its forms, strengthen food security and healthy diets, and to promote agriculture and sustainable development, FAO is the lead intergovernmental actor advocating for and supporting the realization of the right to food.

This year´s Human Rights Day begins the countdown to the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which FAO continuous to be firmly committed.

Climate change is a human rights issue, and human rights must guide the solution.