9 November 2021
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The Committee approved a draft on the right to food by a recorded vote of 180 in favour to 2 against (Israel, United States), with 0 abstentions, expressing alarm that in 2020, the number of people lacking access to adequate food rose by 320 million - to 2.4 billion - amounting to nearly a third of the world's population, and that between 720 million and 811 million people faced hunger.
"Hunger is a violation of human dignity", Cuba's delegate asserted. Presenting the draft, he voiced concern that the United States has blocked consensus on the text for four years. The United States representative — highlighting conditions in the Lake Chad Basin, Yemen and Somalia ‑ said the draft contains unbalanced and inaccurate positions that her delegation simply cannot support. The concept of food sovereignty could justify food protectionism, negatively impacting food security, she explained, adding that the United States does not recognize the right to food, as it lacks a definition in international law.
People say that these kinds of votes are mostly symbolic... well, they are because a huge asshole of a country with veto power keeps voting them down in the end. I guess that other countries know that it is symbolic and can just vote however they want?
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We're the good guys, I swear!
angrily votes against resolution that food is a basic human right
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Funnily enough they play the opposite (the Elizabeth Warren maybe?) in the security council, where they will sometimes not vote on a resolution to seem more fair and level headed, but bribe and strongarm 8 smaller nations into it; see Libya
The US has permanent veto power on the Security Council the only (afaik) part of the UN which has some enforcement mechanisms (kinda). They cannot veto this food resolution, but there is simply no power to enforce it
Yes, this is why these kinds of votes won't even happen in the SC, since the US has veto power and has already voted down the non-binding resolution.