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, 2

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