E/2012/27 E/CN.6/2012/16 Conference on Population and Development (“Cairo Programme of Action”), 26 adopted in 1994, and the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 27 adopted in 1995, the outcomes of their review conferences and commitments regarding the reduction of maternal, newborn and child mortality and universal access to reproductive health, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 28 and the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 29 reaffirming its resolution 54/5 of 12 March 2010 and recalling other relevant United Nations resolutions, in particular Human Rights Council resolutions 11/8 of 17 June 2009, 30 15/17 of 30 September 2010 31 and 18/2 of 28 September 2011, 32 Reaffirming also the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, in particular Millennium Development Goal 5 on improving maternal health, including the targets to reduce by three quarters between 1990 and 2015 the maternal mortality ratio and to achieve by 2015 universal access to reproductive health, Millennium Development Goal 4 on reducing child mortality, Millennium Development Goal 3 on promoting gender equality and empowerment of women, and Millennium Development Goal 6 on combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, and noting with concern that Millennium Development Goal 5 is the least likely of all the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved, Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights9 and the obligations of States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,7 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,7 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,17 the Convention on the Rights of the Child,18 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 33 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 34 and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 35 Recalling also the outcomes of relevant high-level meetings and conferences, including the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals at its sixty-fifth session, of 22 September 2010, 36 the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS, of 10 June 2011 37 and the Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases, of 19 September 2011, 38 __________________ 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 12-27405 Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 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. See General Assembly resolution 55/2. See General Assembly resolution 60/1. See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/64/53), chap. III, sect. A. Ibid., Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1), chap. II. Ibid., Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. II. General Assembly resolution 61/106, annex I. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2220, No. 39481. General Assembly resolution 65/1. See General Assembly resolution 65/277. See General Assembly resolution 66/2. 13