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17.
Acknowledges the work carried out by the Committee on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights to assist States Parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights in fulfilling their obligations, including through the elaboration of general
comments, the consideration of periodic reports and, for States Parties to the Optional
Protocol to the Covenant, the examination of individual communications;
18.
Also acknowledges the work of other relevant treaty bodies and special
procedures, within their mandates, in the promotion and protection of economic, social and
cultural rights, and the important role of the universal periodic review in this regard;
19.
Encourages enhanced cooperation and increased coordination between the
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other human rights treaty bodies,
United Nations bodies, specialized agencies and programmes and the mechanisms of the
Human Rights Council whose activities have a bearing on economic, social and cultural
rights, in a manner that respects their distinctive mandates and promotes their policies,
programmes and projects;
20.
Recognizes and encourages the important contributions of regional
organizations, national human rights institutions, national mechanisms for implementation,
reporting and follow-up, local and regional governments, Indigenous Peoples and civil
society, including non-governmental organizations, academic and research institutions,
business enterprises and trade unions, to the promotion and protection of economic, social
and cultural rights, including training and information activities, and underlines the
importance of consultation with and the participation of affected persons in decisions
affecting them;
21.
Encourages States, in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights, to provide effective guidance to business enterprises on how to meet their
responsibility to respect human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights,
throughout their operations, and to seek to prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts
that are directly linked to their operations, products or services by their business relationships,
even if they have not contributed to those impacts;
22.
Encourages the implementation of targeted measures to achieve social
protection financing targets and to eradicate poverty by addressing it in all its forms and
dimensions, including extreme poverty and the feminization of poverty, inter alia, through
rural development strategies that reduce inequalities and that take into account sustainable
agriculture, food security and nutrition dimensions and the right to food, and investments in
public services, in the social sector and in well-designed, sustainable and efficient social
security systems that are accessible for all, including persons with disabilities, and responsive
to shocks, and the taking of effective measures for the enjoyment by all persons of their right
to social security, including towards its take-up;
23.
Also encourages the creation of decent jobs and livelihoods for all, including
for young persons, especially in developing countries, while facilitating the transition of
workers from the informal to the formal sector and dismantling inequalities in the care
economy, also taking into consideration women’s unequal share of unpaid or underpaid care
and domestic work and women’s overrepresentation in the informal sector;
24.
Stresses the importance of providing and mobilizing sustainable, affordable,
accessible, transparent, adequate and predictable development finance from all sources and
the required means of implementation to developing countries and of creating a more
enabling environment at the global, regional and national levels to increase the mobilization
of domestic resources, which contribute to the realization of economic, social and cultural
rights, recognizing the instrumentality of financing for development and climate finance to
this effect, as well as the importance of fulfilling official development assistance
commitments;
25.
Encourages international financial institutions to continue to support States in
their efforts to build strong institutions, ensuring good governance able to create economic
and social resilience in times of polycrisis, and, when doing so, to take into consideration the
prioritization of social spending and the enhancement of States’ fiscal space, namely,
improving efficiency of public expenditure, improving debt management, accessing external
financing, mobilizing domestic resources and reducing the costs of transfer of remittances,
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