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Education for All programmes as a tool to achieve the millennium development goal
of universal primary education by 2015;
10. 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 to further pursue the work in this
area;
11. 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 and the international
financial institutions to proceed likewise;
12. Invites States, as well as relevant United Nations agencies, the
specialized agencies, programmes and funds, intergovernmental organizations,
United Nations treaty bodies, special procedures, including the independent expert
on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, national human rights
institutions, within their respective mandates, and also non-governmental
organizations, especially those in which people in situations of extreme poverty
express their views, to contribute further to the consultations led by the High
Commissioner on the draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights:
the rights of the poor;10
13. Welcomes the efforts of entities throughout the United Nations system to
incorporate the Millennium Declaration and the internationally agreed development
goals set out therein into their work;
14. Also welcomes the appointment of the new independent expert on the
question of human rights and extreme poverty and the renewed mandate that she has
received, and takes note with appreciation of her report to the General Assembly; 14
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15. Decides to consider the question further at its sixty-fifth session under
the sub-item entitled “Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms”.
70th plenary meeting
18 December 2008
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