A/RES/71/186
Human rights and extreme poverty
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolutions 2/2 of 27 November
2006, 7 7/27 of 28 March 2008, 8 8/11 of 18 June 2008, 9 12/19 of 2 October 2009, 10
15/19 of 30 September 2010, 11 17/13 of 17 June 2011 12 and 26/3 of 26 June 2014 13
on human rights and extreme poverty, and in this regard underlining the imperative
need for their full and effective implementation,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 21/11 of 27 September 2012, 14 by
which the Council adopted the guiding principles on extreme poverty and human
rights 15 as a useful tool for States in the formulation and implementation of poverty
reduction and eradication policies, as appropriate, and encouraging States to
implement the guiding principles,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, 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, and
its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions –
economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner,
Recalling that the Sustainable Development Goals and targets seek to build on
the Millennium Development Goals and complete what they did not achieve, and
that they seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality a nd
the empowerment of all women and girls,
Reaffirming its 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 for Sustainable Development, 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,
Concerned that, during 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
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7
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/62/53),
chap. I, sect. A.
8
Ibid., Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/63/53), chap. II, sect. A.
9
Ibid., chap. III, sect. A.
10
Ibid., Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/65/53 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A.
11
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1), chap. II.
12
Ibid., Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap. III, sect. A.
13
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53), chap. V, sect. A.
14
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. II.
15
A/HRC/21/39.
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