Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
A/RES/72/141
living, fostering equitable and inclusive social development and promoting the
integrated and sustainable management of natural resources,
Recognizing that social inclusion is a means for achieving social integration and
is crucial for fostering stable, safe, harmonious, peaceful and just societies and for
improving social cohesion so as to create an environment for development and
progress,
Recalling its resolution 63/303 of 9 July 2009, entitled “Outcome of the
Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on
Development”, and recognizing that the remaining effects of the world financial and
economic crisis have the potential to undermine progress towards achieving the
internationally agreed development goals, including the Sustainable Development
Goals, and threaten debt sustainability in many countries, especially developing
countries,
Affirming its strong support for fair globalization and the need to translate
growth into eradication of poverty and commitment to strategies and policies that aim
to promote full, freely chosen and productive employment and decent work for all
and that these strategies and policies should constitute fundamental components of
relevant national and international policies and national development strategies,
including poverty reduction strategies, and reaffirming that employment creation and
decent work for all should be incorporated into macroeconomic policies, taking fully
into account the impact and social dimension of globalization, the benefits and costs
of which are often unevenly shared and distributed,
Deeply concerned that extreme poverty persists in all countries of the world,
regardless of their economic, social and cultural situation, and that its extent and its
manifestations, such as hunger and malnutrition, vulnerability to trafficking in human
beings, disease, lack of adequate shelter and illiteracy, are particularly severe in
developing countries, while acknowledging the significant progress made in several
parts of the world in combating extreme poverty,
Stressing the importance of removing obstacles to the realization of the right of
peoples to self-determination, in particular of peoples living under colonial or other
forms of alien domination or foreign occupation, which adversely affect their social
and economic development, including their exclusion from labour markets,
Stressing also the importance of establishing a just and lasting peace all over
the world in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United
Nations, supporting all efforts to uphold the sovereign equality of all States and
respect their territorial integrity and political independence, and refraining in
international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with
the purposes and principles of the United Nations,
Recognizing that terrorism, trafficking in arms, organized crime, trafficking in
persons, money-laundering, ethnic and religious conflict, civil war, politically
motivated killing and genocide pose increasing challenges to States and societies in
the attainment of conditions conducive to social development, an d that they further
present urgent and compelling reasons for action by Governments individually and,
as appropriate, jointly to foster social cohesion while recognizing, protecting and
valuing diversity,
Recognizing also that the three core themes of social development, namely,
poverty eradication, full and productive employment and decent work for all and
social integration, are interrelated and mutually reinforcing, and that an enabling
environment therefore needs to be created so that all three object ives can be pursued
simultaneously,
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