Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
A/RES/68/135
54. Welcomes the contribution to the mobilization of resources for social
development by the initiatives taken on a voluntary basis by groups of Member
States based on innovative financing mechanisms, including those that aim to
provide further drug access at affordable prices to developing countries on a
sustainable and predictable basis, such as the International Drug Purchase Facility,
UNITAID, as well as other initiatives such as the International Finance Facility for
Immunization and the Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines, and notes the
New York Declaration of 20 September 2004, which launched the Action against
Hunger and Poverty initiative and called for further attention to raising funds
urgently needed to help to meet the Millennium Development Goals and to
complement and ensure the long-term stability and predictability of foreign aid;
55. Reaffirms that social development requires the active involvement of all
actors in the development process, including civil society organizations,
corporations and small businesses, and that partnerships among all relevant actors
are increasingly becoming part of national and international cooperation for social
development, also reaffirms that, within countries, partnerships among the
Government, civil society and the private sector can contribute effectively to the
achievement of social development goals, and acknowledges the importance of
efforts to promote the exchange of information and knowledge on decent work for
all and job creation, including green jobs initiatives and related skills, and to
facilitate the integration of relevant data into national economic and employment
policies;
56. Underlines the responsibility of the private sector, at both the national
and the international levels, including small and large companies and transnational
corporations, regarding not only the economic and financial implications but also
the development, social, gender and environmental implications of their activities,
their obligations towards their workers and their contributions to achieving
sustainable development, including social development, and emphasizes the need to
take concrete actions on corporate responsibility and accountability, including
through the participation of all relevant stakeholders, inter alia, for the prevention or
prosecution of corruption;
57. Stresses the importance of promoting corporate social responsibility and
accountability, encourages responsible business practices, such as those promoted
by the Global Compact and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights:
Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, 19
invites the private sector to take into account not only the economic and financial
implications but also the development, social, human rights, gender and
environmental implications of its undertakings, and underlines the importance of the
International Labour Organization Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning
Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy;
58. Encourages Member States to give appropriate consideration to poverty
eradication, social integration, full employment and decent work for all in the
elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda;
59. Underlines the importance of the World Summit for Social Development,
held in Copenhagen from 6 to 12 March 1995, and decides to include in the
provisional agenda of its sixty-ninth session the consideration of an appropriate
celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the World Summit, in 2015, in the
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