Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit
for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth
special session of the General Assembly
A/RES/74/122
communities” and the ministerial declaration of the 2018 high-level political forum
on sustainable development, convened under the auspices of the Council, on the
theme “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies”, 8
Reaffirming that the Declaration on the Right to Development 9 also informs the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with other relevant instruments,
such as the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on
Financing for Development, 10 Agenda 2063 adopted by the African Union and the
International Labour Organization Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair
Globalization, 11 and reaffirming also the strong political commitment to address the
challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels for
sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity,
Affirming its strong support for fair globalization and the need to translate
growth into the reduction of inequalities, eradication of poverty and commitment to
strategies and policies that aim to promote full, freely chosen and productive
employment and decent work for all and that these strategies and policies should
constitute fundamental components of relevant national and international policies and
national development strategies, including inequality and poverty reduction
strategies, reaffirming that employment creation and decent work for all should be
incorporated into macroeconomic policies, taking fully into account the impact and
social dimension of globalization, the benefits and costs of which are often unevenly
shared and distributed, and noting in this regard that the decent work agenda of the
International Labour Organization, with its four strategic objectives, has an important
role to play in achieving the objective of social protection and elimination of
inequalities, as reaffirmed in the International Labour Organization Declaration on
Social Justice for a Fair Globalization,
Recognizing that social inclusion is a means for achieving social integration and
is crucial for fostering stable, safe, harmonious, peaceful and just societies and for
improving social cohesion so as to create an environment for development and
progress and to leave no one behind,
Recognizing also that the remaining effects of the world financial and economic
crisis have the potential to undermine progress towards achieving internationally
agreed development goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals, and
threaten debt sustainability in many countries, especially developing countries,
Deeply concerned that extreme poverty and the feminization of poverty persist
in all countries of the world, regardless of their economic, social and cultural
situation, and that the extent and manifestations thereof, such as hunger and
malnutrition, vulnerability to trafficking in persons, forced and child labour, disease,
lack of adequate shelter and illiteracy, are heightened in developing countries and
particularly severe in least developed countries, while acknowledging the significant
progress made in several parts of the world in combating extreme poverty,
Stressing the importance of removing obstacles to the realization of the right of
peoples to self-determination, in particular of peoples living under colonial or other
forms of alien domination or foreign occupation, which adversely affect their social
and economic development, including their exclusion from labour markets,
Stressing also the importance of establishing a just and lasting peace all ove r
the world in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/73/3),
chap. VI, sect. F.
Resolution 41/128, annex.
Resolution 69/313, annex.
A/63/538-E/2009/4, annex.
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