Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
A/RES/71/162
29. Encourages States to design and implement policies and strategies for
poverty eradication, full employment and decent work for all, including the creation
of full and productive employment that is appropriately and adequately
remunerated, as well as policies and strategies for social integration that promote
gender equality and the empowerment of women and address the specific needs of
social groups such as young people, persons with disabilities, older persons,
migrants and indigenous peoples, taking into account the concerns of those groups
in the planning, implementation and evaluation of development programmes and
policies;
30. 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;
31. Acknowledges the important nexus between international migration and
social development, and stresses the importance of effectively enforcing labour laws
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;
32. 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;
33. Acknowledges that universal health coverage implies that all people have
access, without discrimination, to nationally determined sets of needed promotive,
preventive, curative and rehabilitative basic health services and essential, safe,
affordable, effective and quality medicines, while ensuring that the use of these
services does not expose the users to financial hardship;
34. 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 o f the Madrid
International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 15 the World Programme of Action for
Youth, 16 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 17 the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 18 and the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action; 19
35. Stresses that the benefits of economic growth should be inclusive and
distributed more equitably and that, in order to close the gap of inequality and avoid
any further deepening of inequality, comprehensive social policies and programmes,
including appropriate social transfer and job creation programmes and social
protection systems, are needed;
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15
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.
16
Resolution 50/81, annex, and resolution 62/126, annex.
17
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910.
18
Resolution 61/295, annex.
19
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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