A/RES/79/178
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 December 2024
Seventy-ninth session
Agenda item 71 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
questions, including alternative approaches for improving
the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2024
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/79/458/Add.2, para. 99)]
79/178.
Human rights and extreme poverty
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United
Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2 the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, 3 the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, 4 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, 5 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 7 and all other human rights
instruments adopted by the United Nations,
Recalling its resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992, by which it declared
17 October the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, as well as its
resolution 77/223 of 15 December 2022 and its previous resolutions on human rights
and extreme poverty, in which it reaffirmed that extreme poverty and exclusion from
society constituted a violation of human dignity and an obstacle to the fulfilment of
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
Ibid.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
5
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
6
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
7
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
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