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Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that all mandate holders shall discharge their duties
in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which the
Assembly adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and
transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, and expressed its commitment
to working tirelessly for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that
eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the
greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic,
social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to building upon the
achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their
unfinished business and recognizing that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals can
help ensure that children can assert and enjoy their rights,
Recalling further that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is guided by
the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, grounded in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights treaties, including the Convention
on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols, the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities, the Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome, and
informed by other instruments, such as the Declaration on the Right to Development, and
reaffirming the outcomes of all major United Nations conferences and summits which have
laid a solid foundation for sustainable development and have helped to shape the new
Agenda, including the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the World
Summit on Sustainable Development, the World Summit for Social Development, the
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the
Beijing Platform for Action and the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development, and the follow-up to these conferences, and that the Agenda is to be
implemented, followed up on and reviewed in a manner that is consistent with the
obligations of States under international law,
Welcoming the entry into force of the Paris Agreement, adopted under the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, noting that climate change exacerbates
risks to those in the most vulnerable situations, including children, and underlining that the
effective implementation of the Agreement reinforces the 2030 Agenda,
Cognizant that the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets contained in
the 2030 Agenda are aimed at realizing the human rights of all, leaving no one behind and
reaching those furthest behind first by, inter alia, achieving gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls, and that the achievement of all the Goals and targets
may contribute to the realization of the rights of the child,
Deeply concerned that, globally, 18,000 children still die each day from povertyrelated causes, nearly one in four children under the age of 5, out of an estimated total of
159 million, have stunted growth, particularly in developing countries, and 6.1 per cent are
overweight,
Recognizing that, while under-5 mortality has declined globally, an estimated 5.9
million children under the age of 5 died in 2015, with a global under-5 mortality rate of 43
per 1,000 live births,
Concerned that 1 million girls under 15 give birth every year, and that the risk of
maternal mortality is highest for adolescent girls under 15 years of age,
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