United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/58/207
Distr.: General
11 February 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 93 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/58/483/Add.2)]
58/207. Human resources development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 52/196 of 18 December 1997, 54/211 of 22 December
1999 and 56/189 of 21 December 2001, as well as the relevant sections of the
Agenda for Development, 1
Reaffirming internationally agreed development goals, including those
contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2
Recalling the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits
in the economic, social and related fields,
Recalling also the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the
substantive session of 2002 of the Economic and Social Council, on the contribution
of human resources development, including in the areas of health and education, to
the process of development, 3
Stressing that health and education are at the core of human resources
development and the need to ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and
girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling and will have
equal access to all levels of education, as expressed at the World Education Forum,
held at Dakar from 26 to 28 April 2000, and in the Millennium Declaration,
Recognizing that human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable
development and that human resources development is a fundamental aspect of
poverty eradication and is vital to the process of sustainable development,
contributing to sustained economic growth, social development and environmental
protection,
Recognizing also that there is a need to integrate human resources
development into comprehensive strategies that mainstream a gender perspective,
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1
Resolution 51/240, annex.
See resolution 55/2.
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/57/3/Rev.1),
chap. III, para. 44.
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