United Nations
A/RES/69/234
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 January 2015
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 23 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2014
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/69/472/Add.1)]
69/234. Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication
of Poverty (2008–2017)
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 68/226 of 20 December 2013 and all other resolutions
related to the eradication of poverty,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted by Heads
of State and Government on the occasion of the Millennium Summit,1 as well as the
international commitment to eradicate extreme poverty and to halve, by 2015, the
proportion of the world’s people whose income is less than one United States dollar
a day2 and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger,
Recalling further the 2005 World Summit Outcome 3 and the outcome
document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled
“The future we want”,4
Recalling the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the
Decade 2011–2020,5 adopted in May 2011 at the Fourth United Nations Conference
on the Least Developed Countries, with a main aim of enabling half of the least
developed countries to meet the criteria for graduation by 2020,
Recalling also its resolution 60/265 of 30 June 2006 on the follow-up to the
development outcome of the 2005 World Summit, including the Millennium
Development Goals and the other internationally agreed development goals, and its
resolution 63/303 of 9 July 2009, entitled “Outcome of the Conference on the World
Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development”,
Taking note with appreciation of the ministerial declaration adopted at the
high-level segment of the substantive session of 2006 of the Economic and Social
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1
Resolution 55/2.
Since 2008, United Nations reports on the Millennium Development Goals have been using a poverty line
of 1.25 United States dollars a day.
3
Resolution 60/1.
4
Resolution 66/288, annex.
5
Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey, 9–
13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. II.
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