A/RES/73/163
Human rights and extreme poverty
Dakar Framework for Action, adopted at the World Education Forum on 28 April
2000, 21 and the Incheon Declaration: Education 2030: Towards inclusive and
equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all, adopted at the World
Education Forum 2015, 22 and recognizes the importance of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization strategy for the eradication of
poverty, especially extreme poverty, in supporting the Education for All programmes
as tools for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 by 2030;
16. Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
continue to give high priority to the question of the relationship between extreme
poverty and human rights, and also invites her Office to pursue further work in
this area;
17. Calls upon States, United Nations bodies, in particular the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations
Development Programme, intergovernmental organizations and non -governmental
organizations, to continue to give appropriate attention to the links between human
rights and extreme poverty, and encourages the private sector, including the corporate
sector, and international financial institutions to proceed likewise;
18. Takes note with appreciation of the guiding principles on extreme poverty
and human rights, 16 adopted by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 21/11, 15
as a useful tool for States in the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction
and eradication policies, as appropriate;
19. Encourages Governments, relevant United Nations bodies, funds and
programmes and the specialized agencies, other intergovernmental organizations and
national human rights institutions, as well as non-governmental organizations and
non-State actors, and the private sector, including the corporate sector, to consider the
guiding principles in the formulation and implementation of their policies and
measures concerning persons affected by extreme poverty;
20. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights to disseminate the guiding principles, as appropriate;
21. Welcomes the efforts of entities throughout the United Nations system to
incorporate the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals set out therein
into their work;
22. Takes note of the work undertaken by the Special Rapporteur of the Human
Rights Council on extreme poverty and human rights, including his report submitted
to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session 23 and his report submitted to
the Assembly at its seventy-third session, 24 and also notes the work of the SecretaryGeneral to address the issues referred to therein;
23. Decides to consider the question further at its seventy-fifth session under
the sub-item entitled “Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms ” of the
item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”.
55th plenary meeting
17 December 2018
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See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organiz ation, Final Report of the World
Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 26–28 April 2000 (Paris, 2000).
See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Final Report of the World
Education Forum 2015, Incheon, Republic of Korea, 19–22 May 2015 (Paris, 2015).
A/72/502.
A/73/396.
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