Sustainable Development Summit: Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2015, para. 23

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Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
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People who are vulnerable must be empowered. Those whose needs are reflected in the Agenda include all children, youth, persons with disabilities (of whom more than 80 per cent live in poverty), people living with HIV/AIDS, older persons, indigenous peoples, refugees and internally displaced persons and migrants. We resolve to take further effective measures and actions, in conformity with international law, to remove obstacles and constraints, strengthen support and meet the special needs of people living in areas affected by complex humanitarian emergencies and in areas affected by terrorism.
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Humanitarian
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Persons on the move
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Youth
Year
2015
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Declaration
Reference
Sustainable Development Summit: Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2015), A/RES/70/1, Declaration, para. 23.
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Declaration
Paragraph number
23