A/RES/73/163
Human rights and extreme poverty
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolutions 2/2 of 27 November 2006, 7
7/27 of 28 March 2008, 8 8/11 of 18 June 2008, 9 12/19 of 2 October 2009, 10 15/19 of
30 September 2010, 11 17/13 of 17 June 2011, 12 26/3 of 26 June 2014 13 and 35/19 of
22 June 2017 14 on human rights and extreme poverty, and in this regard underlining
the imperative need for their full and effective implementation,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 21/11 of 27 September 2012, 15 by
which the Council adopted the guiding principles on extreme poverty and human
rights 16 as a useful tool for States in the formulation and implementation of poverty
reduction and eradication policies, as appropriate, and encouraging States to
implement the guiding principles,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, and
its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions —
economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated manner,
Recalling that the Sustainable Development Goals and targets seek to build on
the Millennium Development Goals and complete what they did not achieve, and that
they seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls,
Reaffirming its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which
is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainab le Development, supports and
complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to
address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environ ment at all levels
for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity,
Concerned that, during the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication
of Poverty (2008–2017), while there was progress in reducing poverty, especially in
some middle-income countries, such progress has been uneven and the number of
people living in poverty in some countries continues to increase, with women,
children and older persons, as well as other persons in vulnerable situations,
constituting the majority of those most affected, especially in the least developed
countries and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa,
Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 17 which states
the right to development, as established in the Declaration on t he Right to
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/62/53), chap. I, sect. A.
Ibid., Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/63/53), chap. II, sect. A.
Ibid., chap. III, sect. A.
Ibid., Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/65/53 and A/65/53/Corr.1),
chap. I, sect. A.
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap. III, sect. A.
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/72/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. II.
A/HRC/21/39.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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