A/HRC/RES/58/9
Recalling General Assembly resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which
is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda, supports and complements it, helps to contextualize
its means of implementation targets with concrete policies and actions and reaffirms the
strong political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling
environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and
solidarity, and recalling also Assembly resolution 78/231 of 22 December 2023, in which the
Assembly decided to convene, in 2025, a fourth international conference on financing for
development,
Noting the adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 79/1 of 22 September
2024, containing the Pact for the Future and its annexes, and recalling the commitments
contained in, inter alia, chapters I, entitled “Sustainable development and financing for
development”, and V, entitled “Transforming global governance”,
Recalling the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants adopted by the
General Assembly on 19 September 2016, which led to the adoption of the Global Compact
on Refugees and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration that address
the human rights of all refugees and migrants, regardless of status, and that include a pledge
to fully protect such rights, including economic, social and cultural rights,
Reaffirming the obligations and commitments of States Parties to the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to undertake to take steps, individually
and through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to
the maximum of available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the full
realization of economic, social and cultural rights by all appropriate means, in particular the
adoption of legislative measures,
Noting general comment No. 3 (1990) of the Committee on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, wherein the Committee states that a minimum core obligation to ensure the
satisfaction of, at the very least, minimum essential levels of each of the rights is incumbent
upon every State Party to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, as is not to adopt retrogressive measures on the protection of economic, social and
cultural rights,
Noting also the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), of the
International Labour Organization,
Underlining the human rights principles of, inter alia, non-discrimination and
equality, human dignity, equity, universality, indivisibility, interrelatedness, participation
and accountability, as affirmed in international human rights law and in the Vienna
Declaration and Programme of Action, and emphasizing that the rights enunciated in the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights are to be realized in a nondiscriminatory manner,
Recalling the obligation included in the International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights to ensure the equal rights of men and women to the enjoyment of all
economic, social and cultural rights set forth in the Covenant, and recalling also the inclusion
of both gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls as a stand-alone goal,
and its integration into all goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda and throughout the
implementation process,
Recognizing that the establishment of nationally defined gender-responsive social
protection floors is a key path to facilitating the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural
rights and that social protection floors, when used as a baseline, have the potential to reduce
poverty and inequality by promoting basic income security, decent work, equal pay for work
of equal value and universal access to healthcare and basic services,
Recognizing also the importance of the universality and indivisibility of all human
rights, of robust and efficient public policies, of adequately resourced and fully functioning
services and of cooperation at the national, regional and international levels for the realization
of all economic, social and cultural rights, including for women and girls, older persons,
persons with disabilities, migrants, refugees, peasants and other persons working in rural
areas and Indigenous Peoples,
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