A/RES/59/186
7.
Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, within
the framework of the implementation of the United Nations Decade for the
Eradication of Poverty, to continue to give appropriate attention to the question of
human rights and extreme poverty;
Welcomes the efforts of entities throughout the United Nations system to
8.
incorporate the Millennium Declaration and the internationally agreed development
goals set out therein into their work;
Requests the independent expert on the question of human rights and
9.
extreme poverty to forward his reports on his activities, which he will submit to the
Commission on Human Rights at its sixty-first and sixty-second sessions, to the
General Assembly at its sixty-first session;
10. Calls upon States, United Nations bodies, in particular the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations
Development Programme, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental
organizations to continue to give appropriate attention to the links between human
rights and extreme poverty;
11. Decides to consider this question further at its sixty-first session under
the sub-item entitled “Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms”.
74th plenary meeting
20 December 2004
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