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155. We encourage the sharing of experiences and best practices on ways to address
the high levels of unemployment and underemployment, in particular among young
people.
156. We stress the need to provide social protection to all members of society,
fostering growth, resilience, social justice and cohesion, including those who are not
employed in the formal economy. In this regard, we strongly encourage national and
local initiatives aimed at providing social protection floors for all citizens. We
support global dialogue on best practices for social protection programmes that
takes into account the three dimensions of sustainable development and, in this
regard, we note International Labour Organization Recommendation No. 202 concerning
national floors of social protection.
157. We call upon States to promote and protect effectively the human rights and
fundamental freedoms of all migrants regardless of migration status, especially
those of women and children, and to address international migration through
international, regional or bilateral cooperation and dialogue and a comprehensive
and balanced approach, recognizing the roles and responsibilities of countries of
origin, transit and destination in promoting and protecting the human rights of all
migrants, and avoiding approaches that might aggravate their vulnerability.
Oceans and seas
158. We recognize that oceans, seas and coastal areas form an integrated and
essential component of the Earth’s ecosystem and are critical to sustaining it, and
that international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of
the Sea, 40 provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of
the oceans and their resources. We stress the importance of the conservation and
sustainable use of the oceans and seas and of their resources for sustainable
development, including through their contributions to poverty eradication, sustained
economic growth, food security and creation of sustainable livelihoods and decent
work, while at the same time protecting biodiversity and the marine environment
and addressing the impacts of climate change. We therefore commit to protect, and
restore, the health, productivity and resilience of oceans and marine ecosystems, to
maintain their biodiversity, enabling their conservation and sustainable use for
present and future generations, and to effectively apply an ecosystem approach and
the precautionary approach in the management, in accordance with international
law, of activities having an impact on the marine environment, to deliver on all three
dimensions of sustainable development.
159. We recognize the importance of the Convention on the Law of the Sea to
advancing sustainable development and its near universal adoption by States, and in
this regard we urge all its parties to fully implement their obligations under the
Convention.
160. We recognize the importance of building the capacity of developing countries
to be able to benefit from the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and
seas and their resources, and in this regard we emphasize the need for cooperation in
marine scientific research to implement the provisions of the Convention on the
Law of the Sea and the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development,
as well as for the transfer of technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental
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