A/RES/73/141
Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
and girls and boys, strengthening social protection and health systems and applying
international labour standards, and urges States and, as appropriate, the relevant
entities of the United Nations system and international and regional organizations,
within their respective mandates, as well as civil society, the private sector, employer
organizations, trade unions, the media and other relevant actors, to continue to
develop and strengthen policies, strategies and programmes to enhance, in particular,
the employability of women and youth and to ensure their access to full and
productive employment and decent work for all, including by improving access to
formal and non-formal education, skills development and vocational training, lifelong
learning and retraining and long-distance education, inter alia, in information and
communications technology and entrepreneurial skills, particularly i n developing
countries, including with a view to supporting the economic empowerment of women
in the different stages of their lives;
Inequality in access to technologies
(s) Recognizes that substantial digital divides exist between countries and
regions, and between developed and developing countries, particularly Africa and
least developed countries, and urges policymakers and regulators to work together to
provide people with affordable access to technologies, including information and
communications technologies and digital skills, through effective private-public
partnership at multiple levels in order to advance investment in infrastructure and
training, facilitated by cross-sectoral collaboration;
Inequality in access to infrastructure
(t) Recognizes that important environmental and infrastructure inequalities
persist, with people living in poverty overwhelmingly suffering from the effects of
pollution, climate change and environmental degradation, calls upon the international
community, including Member States, to continue their ambitious efforts to strive for
more inclusive, equitable, balanced, stable and development -oriented sustainable
socioeconomic approaches to overcoming poverty, and, in view of the negative
impact of inequality, including gender inequality, on poverty, emphasizes the
importance of structural transformation that leads to inclusive and sustainable
industrialization for employment creation and poverty reduction, investing in
sustainable agriculture and quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure to
support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and
equitable access for all, enhancing interconnectivity and achieving access to energy,
and improving access to financial services, as well as promoting decent rural
employment, improving access to quality education, promoting quality health care,
including through the acceleration of the transition towards equitable access to
universal health coverage, advancing gender equality and the empowerment of all
women and girls, expanding social protection coverage, climate change mitigation
and adaptation and combating inequality and social exclusion;
(u) Welcomes the convening of the third Global Infrastructure Forum in Bali,
Indonesia, on 13 October 2018, and in this regard recalls, as outlined in the Addis
Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, that a greater range of voices should be heard, particularly from
developing countries, to identify and address infrastructure and capacity gaps, in
particular in, inter alia, African countries, and that it will highlight opportunities for
investment and cooperation and work to ensure that investments are environmentally,
socially and economically sustainable;
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