Inclusive policies and programmes to address homelessness,
including in the aftermath of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
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implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and its recognition that eradicating poverty in
all its forms and dimensions, is the greatest global challenge and an in dispensable
requirement for sustainable development,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis
Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development,4 which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 2020/7 of 18 June 2020,
entitled, “Affordable housing and social protection systems for all to address
homelessness”, and the commitments thereto,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Affordable housing
and social protection systems for all to address homelessness”, 5 in which he
encouraged Member States to develop comprehensive intersectoral national strategies
and specific policy interventions to address homelessness, build broad -based
partnerships with relevant stakeholders, including with civil society, to prevent people
from falling into homelessness, and to combat stereotypes and discrimination against
people experiencing homelessness,
Reaffirming the Paris Agreement 6 and the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change, 7 the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action
(SAMOA) Pathway 8 and the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, 9 as
each document contributes to the improvement of the situation of homelessness and
the promotion of the right of individuals to adequate housing as a component of the
right to an adequate standard of living, without discrimination,
Recalling the importance of the full realization of Agenda 2063 of the African
Union, as well as its first 10-year implementation plan (2014–2023), as a strategic
framework for ensuring a positive socioeconomic transformation in Africa within the
next 50 years, and its continental programme embedded in the resolutions of the
General Assembly on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development 10 and regional
initiatives, such as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme,
Recalling also the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 11 in which States
parties recognized the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the
child’s physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development,
Recalling further the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, 12 which advances the full realization of the human
rights of women, including the right to social security, and the outcomes of the Fourth
World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, in 1995, 13 towards advancing the goals
of gender equality, development and peace for all women and girls in the interest of
all humanity,
Recalling the New Urban Agenda, 14 which, inter alia, promotes cities and human
settlements that fulfil their social function, including the social and ecological
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Resolution 69/313, annex.
E/CN.5/2020/3.
See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21. annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Resolution 69/15, annex.
Resolution 71/1.
A/57/304, annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
Resolution 71/256, annex.
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