A/RES/68/226
Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017)
Taking note with appreciation of the ministerial declaration adopted at the
high-level segment of the substantive session of 2006 of the Economic and Social
Council on creating an environment at the national and international levels
conducive to generating full and productive employment and decent work for all,
and its impact on sustainable development 6 and also of Economic and Social
Council resolution 2011/37 of 28 July 2011 entitled “Recovering from the world
financial and economic crisis: a Global Jobs Pact”,
Recalling the Monterrey Consensus of the International
Financing for Development 7 and the Doha Declaration on
Development: outcome document of the Follow-up International
Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of
Consensus, 8
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Recalling also its resolution 68/1 of 20 September 2013 on the review of the
implementation of General Assembly resolution 61/16 of 20 November 2006 on the
strengthening of the Economic and Social Council and its resolution 67/290 of
9 July 2013 on the format and organizational aspects of the high-level political
forum on sustainable development,
Recalling further the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on
the Millennium Development Goals, held in 2010, and its outcome document, 9 and
the special event to follow up efforts made towards achieving the Millennium
Development Goals, held on 25 September 2013, and its outcome document, 10
Acknowledging the importance of the eradication of poverty as an overarching
objective of ongoing follow-up processes to the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, and also acknowledging the central imperative of poverty
eradication in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda,
Expressing deep concern about the ongoing adverse impacts of the global
financial and economic crisis on development, including on the capacity of
developing countries to mobilize resources for development, recognizing that there
is a need to promote recovery, and acknowledging that an effective response to the
impacts of the crisis requires the timely implementation of all development
commitments, including existing aid commitments,
Concerned that, midway into the Second United Nations Decade for the
Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017), while there has been progress in reducing
poverty, especially in some middle-income countries, such progress has been
uneven and the number of people living in poverty in some countries continues to
increase, with women and children constituting the majority of the most affected
groups, especially in the least developed countries and particularly in sub-Saharan
Africa,
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6
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/61/3/Rev.1),
chap. III, para. 50.
7
Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March
2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
8
Resolution 63/239, annex.
9
Resolution 65/1.
10
Resolution 68/6.
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