United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/60/209
Distr.: General
17 March 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 56 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2005
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/60/492/Add.1)]
60/209. Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the
Eradication of Poverty (1997–2006)
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 47/196 of 22 December 1992, 48/183 of 21 December
1993, 50/107 of 20 December 1995, 56/207 of 21 December 2001, 57/265 and
57/266 of 20 December 2002, 58/222 of 23 December 2003 and 59/247 of
22 December 2004,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted by Heads
of State and Government on the occasion of the Millennium Summit, 1 and their
commitment to eradicate extreme poverty and to halve, by 2015, the proportion of
the world’s people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of
people who suffer from hunger,
Recalling further the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 2
Underlining the priority and urgency given by the Heads of State and
Government to the eradication of poverty, as expressed in the outcomes of the major
United Nations conferences and summits in economic and social fields,
Bearing in mind the outcomes of the World Summit for Social Development 3
and the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly, 4
Expressing its deep concern that the number of people living in extreme
poverty in many countries continues to increase, with women and children
constituting the majority and the most affected groups, in particular in the least
developed countries and in sub-Saharan Africa,
Encouraged by reductions in poverty in some countries in the recent past and
determined to reinforce and extend this trend to benefit people worldwide,
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1
See resolution 55/2.
See resolution 60/1.
3
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.
4
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
2
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