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26. Also stresses the need to allocate adequate resources for the elimination
of all forms of discrimination against women in the workplace, including unequal
access to labour market participation and wage inequalities, as well as reconciliation
of work and private life for both women and men;
27. Encourages States to promote youth employment by, inter alia, developing
and implementing action plans in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders;
28. Also encourages States to pursue efforts to promote the concerns of older
persons and persons with disabilities and their organizations in the planning,
implementation and evaluation of all development programmes and policies;
29. Stresses that policies and programmes designed to achieve poverty
eradication, full employment and decent work for all should include specific measures
to foster social integration, including by providing marginalized socio-economic
sectors and groups with equal access to opportunities and social protection;
30. Acknowledges the important nexus between international migration and
social development, and stresses the importance of enforcing labour law effectively
with regard to migrant workers’ labour relations and working conditions, inter alia,
those related to their remuneration and conditions of health, safety at work and the
right to freedom of association;
31. Recognizes that, since the convening of the World Summit for Social
Development in Copenhagen in 1995, advances have been made in addressing and
promoting social integration, including through the adoption of the Madrid
International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 9 the World Programme of Action for
Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond and the Supplement thereto, 10 the Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 11 the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples 12 and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; 13
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32. Also recognizes the importance of providing social protection schemes for
the formal and informal economy as instruments to achieve equity, inclusion and
stability and cohesion of societies, and emphasizes the importance of supporting
national efforts aimed at bringing informal workers into the formal economy;
33. Further recognizes that the social integration of people living in poverty
should encompass addressing and meeting their basic human needs, including
nutrition, health, water, sanitation, housing and access to education and
employment, through integrated development strategies;
34. Reaffirms that social integration policies should seek to reduce
inequalities, promote access to basic social services, education for all and health
care, increase the participation on equal terms and integration of social groups,
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Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8–12 April 2002 (United Nations publication,
Sales No. E.02.IV.4), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
10
Resolution 50/81, annex, and resolution 62/126, annex. In paragraph 1 of its resolution 47/1, the
Commission for Social Development reaffirmed the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year
2000 and Beyond and the Supplement thereto as a unified set of guiding principles, to be referred to
henceforth as the World Programme of Action for Youth.
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Resolution 61/106, annex I.
12
Resolution 61/295, annex.
13
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
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