A/HRC/RES/17/13
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 July 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Seventeenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council∗
17/13 Extreme poverty and human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling that, in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
the International Covenants on Human Rights, the ideal of free human beings enjoying
freedom from fear and want can be achieved only if conditions are created whereby
everyone may enjoy his or her economic, social and cultural rights, as well as his or her
civil and political rights, and reaffirming in this regard the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights,
Recalling also all previous resolutions on the issue of human rights and extreme
poverty adopted by the General Assembly, including resolution 65/214 of 21 December
2010, and the Commission on Human Rights, as well as relevant Human Rights Council
resolutions, including Council resolutions 2/2 of 27 November 2006, 7/27 of 28 March
2008, 8/11 of 18 June 2008, 12/19 of 2 October 2009 and 15/19 of 30 September 2010,
Recalling further that, in its resolution 62/205 of 19 December 2007, the General
Assembly proclaimed the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty
(2008-2017) in order to support, in an efficient and coordinated manner, the internationally
agreed development goals relating to poverty eradication, including the Millennium
Development Goals,
Reaffirming, in this regard, the commitments made at relevant United Nations
conferences and summits, including those made at the World Summit for Social
Development, held in Copenhagen in 1995, at the Millennium Summit, at which Heads of
State and Government committed themselves to eradicate extreme poverty and to halve, by
∗
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its seventeenth session (A/HRC/17/2), chap. I.
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