A/RES/59/213 Doha Development Agenda,11 including negotiations aimed at substantial improvements in market access to promote sustainable growth in Africa; 16. Invites the United Nations system to enhance its support to African countries in their efforts to implement the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation;13 17. Encourages the United Nations to take special measures to address the challenges of poverty eradication through debt cancellation, enhanced official development assistance, increases in flows of foreign direct investments, as well as transfers of technology; 18. Calls upon the United Nations system to accelerate the implementation of the Plan of Action contained in the document entitled “A world fit for children”, adopted at the special session of the General Assembly on children,8 and to provide assistance, as appropriate, to the African Union and its member States in this regard; 19. Calls upon the United Nations system and the African Union to develop a coherent and effective strategy, including through joint programmes and activities, for the promotion and protection of human rights in Africa, within the framework of the implementation of regional and international treaties, resolutions and plans of action adopted by the two organizations; 20. Urges the United Nations system to increase its support for Africa in the implementation of the declaration of the extraordinary summit meeting of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other related infectious diseases,14 and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, 17 so as to arrest the spread of these diseases, inter alia, through sound capacity-building in human resources; 21. Invites the United Nations system and the international community to provide adequate support to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, aimed at finalizing the process leading to the establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights; 22. Urges the United Nations system speedily to implement resolution 58/149 of 22 December 2003 on assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa, and effectively to support African countries in their effort to incorporate the problems of refugees into national and regional development plans; 23. Urges the Secretary-General to encourage the United Nations system to work towards ensuring the effective and equitable representation of African men and women at senior and policy levels at the respective headquarters of its organizations and in their regional fields of operation; 24. Requests the United Nations system to cooperate with the African Union and its member States in the implementation of appropriate policies for the promotion of the culture of democracy, good governance, respect for human rights and the rule of law, and the strengthening of democratic institutions which will enhance the popular participation of the peoples of the continent in these issues, in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Constitutive Act of the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development; 25. Calls upon the United Nations system and invites the Bretton Woods institutions to support, within their respective mandates, and where necessary and _______________ 17 6 Resolution S-26/2, annex.

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