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
the completion of primary and secondary education so that all people may have access
to lifelong learning opportunities that help them to acquire the knowledge and skills
needed to exploit opportunities to participate fully in society and contribute to
sustainable development;
(g) Recognizes that substantial and efficiently spent investments are needed
to improve the quality of education and vocational training and in order to enable
millions of people to acquire skills for decent work, and takes note with appreciation
of the report of the International Commission on Financing Global Education
Opportunity and the recommendations contained therein, as appropriate;
(h) Urges Member States to promote and respect women’s and girls’ right to
education throughout the life cycle at all levels, especially for those who have been
left furthest behind, and eliminate gender disparities in access to all areas of
secondary and tertiary education, promote financial literacy and inclusion, digital
literacy and entrepreneurship, ensure that women and girls have equal access to career
development, training, scholarships and fellowships and adopt positive action to build
women’s and girls’ leadership skills and influence, and adopt measures that promote,
respect and guarantee the safety of women and girls in the school environment and
that support women and girls with disabilities at all levels of education and training;
(i) Recognizes the responsibility of Governments to urgently and
significantly scale up efforts to accelerate the transition towards universal access to
affordable and quality health-care services, and calls upon Member States to
accelerate progress towards achieving the goal of universal healt h coverage, which
implies that all people have equal access, without discrimination of any kind, to
nationally determined sets of quality promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative
and palliative basic health services needed and to essential, safe, affordable, effective
and quality medicines, while ensuring that the use of such services and medicines
does not expose the users to financial hardship, with a specific emphasis on the poor,
vulnerable and marginalized segments of the population;
Inequality in access to nutrition and food
(j) Reaffirms the right to food and acknowledges the importance of promoting
sustainable farming and agriculture and, recognizing the important contribution that
family farming and smallholder farming can play in provid ing food security, reducing
inequality in access to food and nutrition, calls upon Governments to ensure access
by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including
infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round;
(k) Encourages Governments to end all forms of malnutrition, including the
internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of
age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating
women and older persons;
(l) Invites Governments to double the agricultural productivity and incomes
of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family
farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to la nd,
other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and
opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment;
Inequality in access to social protection
(m) Urges Governments, with the cooperation of relevant entities, to establish
nationally appropriate social protection that supports labour market participation and
addresses and reduces inequality and social exclusion, and social protection systems
and floors, including through streamlining fragmented social protectio n systems/
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