A/RES/70/218
United Nations
Distr.: General
15 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 24 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2015
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/70/476/Add.1)]
70/218. Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of
Poverty (2008–2017)
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 69/234 of 19 December 2014 and all other resolutions
related to the eradication of poverty,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted by Heads
of State and Government on the occasion of the Millennium Summit, 1 as well as the
international commitment to eradicate extreme poverty and to halve, by 2015, the
proportion of the world’s people whose income is less than 1 United States dollar a
day 2 and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger,
Recalling further the 2005 World Summit Outcome 3 and the outcome
document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled
“The future we want”, 4
Taking note of the ongoing efforts to implement the Programme of Action for
the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020, 5 adopted in May 2011 at
the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, the SIDS
Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway, 6 adopted in September 2014
at the third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, and the
Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade
2014–2024, 7 adopted in November 2014 at the second United Nations Conference
on Landlocked Developing Countries, and recognizing that middle-income countries
still face significant challenges in achieving sustainable development and the need ,
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1
Resolution 55/2.
Since 2008, United Nations reports on the Millennium Development Goals have been using a poverty line
of 1.25 United States dollars a day.
3
Resolution 60/1.
4
Resolution 66/288, annex.
5
Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey,
9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. II.
6
Resolution 69/15, annex.
7
Resolution 69/137, annex II.
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