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.

Brief, 2022

The COVID-19 crisis is exacerbating food insecurity and malnutrition in the Pacific region as measures to halt the spread of the virus have unintended impacts on people’s lives. Urgent steps are needed to address food insecurity for the poorest and most marginalized.

Food and social protection are human rights. Social protection and the right to food are key to building efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, that leave no one behind.