A/RES/78/172
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 24
Social development
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/472, para. 57)]
78/172.
Inclusive policies and programmes to address homelessness,
including in the aftermath of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolution 76/133 on the inclusive policies and
programmes to address homelessness, including in the aftermath of the coronavirus
disease (COVID-19), adopted on 16 December 2021,
Recalling also the World Summit for Social Development, held in Copenhagen
from 6 to 12 March 1995, and the twenty-fourth special session of the General
Assembly, entitled “World Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving
social development for all in a globalizing world”, held in Geneva from 26 June to
1 July 2000, and their outcomes,
Reaffirming that the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the
Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development 1 and the further
initiatives for social development adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty fourth special session 2 constitute the basic framework for the promotion of social
development for all with people at the centre, and encouraging the continued global
dialogue on social development issues,
Recalling the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 3
which, inter alia, recognizes the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living
including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement
of living conditions,
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Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6 –12 March 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution I, annexes I and II.
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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