Promoting social integration through social inclusion
A/RES/72/142
11. Encourages Member States to mainstream social integration objectives
into social inclusion policies, promoting the participation of persons in vulnerable or
marginalized groups or situations in planning, implementing and monitoring
processes, in collaboration, as appropriate, with relevant organizations of the United
Nations development system, regional organizations, international and regional
financial institutions, development and social partners, the private sector and civil
society organizations;
12. Also encourages Member States to promote the inclusion of a gender
perspective in all social inclusion strategies and initiatives, especially in terms of the
economic empowerment of women and the promotion of a gender-sensitive policy
environment in the workplace;
13. Invites Member States, relevant organizations of the United Nations
system, regional organizations, international and regional financial institutions,
development and social partners, the private sector and civil society organizations to
continue to share their experience in respect of practical initiatives to promote
economic, civil and political participation and anti-discrimination measures and other
measures for advancing social integration;
14. Also invites Member States to consider a systematic exchange of good
practices in social integration at the regional and international levels so that
policymakers and other stakeholders can apply them to their national circumstances
and step up progress towards achieving a “society for all”;
15. Encourages Member States to improve the collection and use of data
disaggregated by age, sex and other relevant criteria for the formulation of policies
and programmes aimed at achieving social inclusion, and stresses the importance of
international cooperation in this regard;
16. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report, taking into account the
information provided by Member States and relevant actors of the United Nations
system, on the implementation of the present resolution to the General Assembly at
its seventy-fourth session;
17. Decides to consider the question further at its seventy-fourth session under
the item entitled “Social development”.
73rd plenary meeting
19 December 2017
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