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All programmes as a tool to achieve the millennium development goal of universal
primary education by 2015.
44. We reaffirm our commitment to support developing country efforts to ensure
that all children have access to and complete free and compulsory primary education
of good quality, to eliminate gender inequality and imbalance and to renew efforts to
improve girls’ education. We also commit ourselves to continuing to support the
efforts of developing countries in the implementation of the Education for All
initiative, including with enhanced resources of all types through the Education for
All fast-track initiative in support of country-led national education plans.
45. We commit ourselves to promoting education for peace and human
development.
Rural and agricultural development
46. We reaffirm that food security and rural and agricultural development must be
adequately and urgently addressed in the context of national development and
response strategies and, in this context, will enhance the contributions of indigenous
and local communities, as appropriate. We are convinced that the eradication of
poverty, hunger and malnutrition, particularly as they affect children, is crucial for
the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Rural and agricultural
development should be an integral part of national and international development
policies. We deem it necessary to increase productive investment in rural and
agricultural development to achieve food security. We commit ourselves to
increasing support for agricultural development and trade capacity-building in the
agricultural sector in developing countries. Support for commodity development
projects, especially market-based projects, and for their preparation under the
Second Account of the Common Fund for Commodities should be encouraged.
Employment
47. We strongly support fair globalization and resolve to make the goals of full
and productive employment and decent work for all, including for women and
young people, a central objective of our relevant national and international policies
as well as our national development strategies, including poverty reduction
strategies, as part of our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
These measures should also encompass the elimination of the worst forms of child
labour, as defined in International Labour Organization Convention No. 182, and
forced labour. We also resolve to ensure full respect for the fundamental principles
and rights at work.
Sustainable development: managing and protecting our common environment
48. We reaffirm our commitment to achieve the goal of sustainable development,
including through the implementation of Agenda 21 10 and the Johannesburg Plan of
Implementation.3 To this end, we commit ourselves to undertaking concrete actions
and measures at all levels and to enhancing international cooperation, taking into
account the Rio principles. 11 These efforts will also promote the integration of the
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Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June
1992 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions adopted by the
Conference, resolution 1, annex II.
11
Ibid., annex I.
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