A/RES/70/220
United Nations
Distr.: General
29 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 24 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2015
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/70/476/Add.3)]
70/220. Human resources development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 52/196 of 18 December 1997, 54/211 of 22 December
1999, 56/189 of 21 December 2001, 58/207 of 23 December 2003, 60/211 of
22 December 2005, 62/207 of 19 December 2007, 64/218 of 21 December 2009,
66/217 of 22 December 2011 and 68/228 of 20 December 2013,
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 this 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, 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,
Reaffirming also 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 Sustainable
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
environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global
partnership and solidarity,
Stressing that human resources development lies at the heart of economic,
social and environmental development and that health and education are at the core
of human resources development,
Stressing also that human resources development is vital to the efforts to
achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including the Sustaina ble
Development Goals, and to expand opportunities for people, in particular for the
most vulnerable groups of the population,
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