Plan International - Girls' Rights Platform - Girls' rights are human rights: Positioning girls at the heart of the international agenda

A/RES/68/6 United Nations Distr.: General 28 January 2014 General Assembly Sixty-eighth session Agenda items 14 and 118 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 October 2013 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/68/L.4)] 68/6. Outcome document of the special event to follow up efforts made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals The General Assembly Adopts the following outcome document: Outcome document of the special event to follow up efforts made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals 1. We, Heads of State and Government and heads of delegation, have gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York at the special event convened by the President of the General Assembly to review progress made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and to chart the way forward. Our deliberations have taken account of the voices of people worldwide and of the concerns and priorities that they have conveyed. 2. We gather with a sense of urgency and determination, with less than 850 days remaining for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. We renew our commitment to the Goals and resolve to intensify all efforts for their achievement by 2015. 3. We welcome what has been achieved so far. The Millennium Development Goals have provided a common vision and have contributed to remarkable progress. Significant and substantial advances have been made in meeting several of the targets. 4. However, we are concerned about unevenness and gaps in achievement and about the immense challenges that remain. The Millennium Development Goals are critical for meeting the basic needs of people in developing countries; as we approach the 2015 deadline, unrelenting efforts are required to accelerate progress across all the Goals. 5. Among and within developing countries, those who have been left furthest behind require our most urgent attention and support. We are conscious of the special challenges and needs of the least developed countries; of the fact that, 13-43981 *1343981* Please recycle