A/RES/79/178 Human rights and extreme poverty all human rights and that urgent national and international action was therefore required to eliminate them, 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 effective understanding, promotion and protection of all human rights, Recalling further Human Rights Council resolution 53/10 of 12 July 2023 8 and its previous resolutions on human rights and extreme poverty, and in this regard underlining the imperative need for their full and effective implementation, Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 21/11 of 27 September 2012, 9 by which the Council adopted the guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights 10 as a useful tool for States in the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction and eradication policies, as appropriate, and encouraging States to implement the guiding principles, Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, and its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, Recognizing that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately impacted the poor and those in vulnerable situations, with repercussions on health and development gains, thus hampering the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, including universal health coverage; and expressing its concern by the fact that, in 2020, the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in extreme poverty for the first time in more than two decades and that worldwide progress towards poverty eradication has been further stalled and that if current trends continue, only one third of countries will have halved their national poverty rates from 2015, Reaffirming its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity, Reaffirming also the objectives and goals of the Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018–2027) to accelerate global actions for a world without poverty and to support, in an efficient and coordinated manner, the internationally agreed development goals related to poverty eradication, including the Sustainable Development Goals and their objective of leaving no one behind and reaching the furthest behind first, __________________ See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/78/53), chap. VII, sect. A. 9 Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. II. 10 A/HRC/21/39. 8 2/8 24-24219