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2.
Decides to work in a systematic manner to give due consideration to address
inequality within and among States by sharing best practices, challenges and lessons learned
concerning integrated approaches to the promotion and protection of human rights and the
implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
3.
Calls upon States:
(a)
To continuously analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their
objectives to achieve equality, and to share the outcomes thereof;
(b)
To ensure protection for those most affected, namely women, children, youth,
persons with disabilities, people living with HIV/AIDS, older persons, indigenous peoples,
refugees and internally displaced persons and migrants, and the poor, vulnerable and
marginalized segments of the population, and to prevent all forms of discrimination,
especially in the context of timely, universal, inclusive, equitable and non-discriminatory
access to safe, quality, effective and affordable health care and services and medical supplies
and equipment, including diagnostics, therapeutics, medicine and vaccines, and to leave no
one behind, endeavouring to reach the furthest behind first, founded on the dignity of the
human person and reflecting the principles of equality and non-discrimination;
4.
Recognizes the need for greater international cooperation to further reduce
inequality within and among States and to increase capacity-building support to countries
with the most constrained resources to ensure that social expenditures meet certain targets as
part of their efforts to further promote and protect human rights for all;
5.
Decides, in order to have a clear line of sight with respect to inequalities as
States “build back better” after the pandemic, to hold at its forty-eighth session a half-day
panel discussion on deepening inequalities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and their
implications for the realization of human rights, and requests the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights to make the discussion fully accessible to persons
with disabilities, and to prepare a summary report on the discussion and to submit it to the
Human Rights Council at its fifty-first session;
6.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to organize the abovementioned panel discussion and to collaborate with States and other relevant stakeholders,
including United Nations agencies, funds and programmes within their respective mandates,
civil society organizations, and national human rights institutions, in order to ensure multistakeholder participation in the panel discussion;
7.
Requests all mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, the treaty bodies and
relevant stakeholders to pay particular attention to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable
Development Goals and targets, including Goal 10;
8.
Decides to remain seized of the matter.
36th meeting
6 October 2020
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 25 to 8, with 14 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Afghanistan, Angola, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso,
Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Fiji, India, Indonesia,
Libya, Mauritania, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar,
Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Against:
Australia, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Japan, Netherlands, Poland and
Slovakia
Abstaining:
Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Italy, Marshall Islands,
Mexico, Peru, Republic of Korea, Spain, Ukraine and Uruguay]
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