United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/58/222
Distr.: General
19 February 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 98
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/58/488)]
58/222. Implementation of the first United Nations Decade
for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006)
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 47/196 of 22 December 1992, 48/183 of 21 December
1993, 50/107 of 20 December 1995, 56/207 of 21 December 2001 and 57/266 of
20 December 2002,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by heads of
State and Government on the occasion of the Millennium Summit, 1 and their
commitment to eradicate extreme poverty and to halve, by 2015, the proportion of
the world’s people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of
people who suffer from hunger,
Underlining the priority and urgency given by the heads of State and
Government to the eradication of poverty, as expressed in the Monterrey Consensus
of the International Conference on Financing for Development 2 and in the outcomes
of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 3
Recalling the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits
in the economic and social fields,
Bearing in mind the outcomes of the World Summit for Social Development 4
and the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly, 5
Expressing its deep concern that the number of people living in extreme
poverty in many countries continues to increase, with women and children
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1
See resolution 55/2.
Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico,
18-22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
3
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa,
26 August-4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I,
resolution 1, annex, and resolution 2, annex.
4
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6-12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
5
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
2
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