A/RES/75/310
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
26 July 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 24
Eradication of poverty and other development issues
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 23 July 2021
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/75/L.108 and A/75/L.108/Add.1)]
75/310.
Vision for Everyone: accelerating action to achieve the Sustainable
Development Goals
The General Assembly,
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, ensuring that no one is left behind,
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, its commitment to achieving sustainable development
in its three dimensions – economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and
integrated manner, and to building upon the achievements of the Millennium
Development Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business,
Recognizing the important contribution that the promotion of eye health can
make to accelerating action towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development
Goals,
Recognizing also that the contributions of persons with disabilities are important
to the full and effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and noting the need for
Member States, the United Nations system and other stakeholders to further
strengthen the normative framework on disability, including the rights of persons with
disabilities, in line with the pledge of leaving no one behind, and to consider disability
as a global issue, cutting across the pillars of the United Nations,
Noting that at least 2 billion people are living with vision impairment or
blindness and 1.1 billion people have vision impairment that could have been
prevented or is yet to be addressed, and that global eye care needs are projecte d to
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