United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/106
Distr.: General
14 March 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 114 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/602/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
55/106. Human rights and extreme poverty
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 2 and other human rights instruments adopted by the
United Nations,
Considering the relevant provisions of the Vienna Declaration and Programme
of Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 3
and of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of
Action of the World Summit for Social Development, adopted by the World Summit
on 12 March 1995, 4 and the outcome document of 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”, adopted at
Geneva on 1 July 2000, 5
Recalling its resolutions 47/196 of 22 December 1992, by which it declared
17 October the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, 48/183 of
21 December 1993, by which it proclaimed 1996 the International Year for the
Eradication of Poverty, 50/107 of 20 December 1995, by which it proclaimed the
first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997–2006), 51/97 of
12 December 1996 on human rights and extreme poverty, 52/193 of 18 December
1997, in which it emphasized the follow-up to the Decade, and 53/146 of
9 December 1998 on human rights and extreme poverty,
Recalling also its resolution 52/134 of 12 December 1997, in which it
recognized that the enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human
rights was essential for the understanding, promotion and protection of all human
rights,
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
4
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 1, annexes I and II.
5
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
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