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diversification, commercialization, and development of an adequate
infrastructure and enhanced market access for developing countries;
rural
(s) Delivering on the commitments made to achieve global food security,
and providing adequate and predictable resources through bilateral and multilateral
channels, including the commitments set out in the Aquila Food Security Initiative;
(t) Addressing environmental challenges to sustainable agricultural
development such as water quality and availability, deforestation and desertification,
land and soil degradation, dust, floods, drought and unpredictable weather patterns
and loss of biodiversity, and promoting the development and dissemination of
appropriate, affordable and sustainable agricultural technologies and the transfer of
such technologies on mutually agreed terms;
(u) Reaffirming the right of everyone to have access to safe, sufficient and
nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right
of everyone to be free from hunger, so as to be able to fully develop and maintain
his or her physical and mental capacities;
(v) Making special efforts to meet the nutritional needs of women, children,
older persons and persons with disabilities, as well as those living in vulnerable
situations, through targeted and effective programming;
(w) Accelerating progress on the challenges faced by indigenous peoples in
the context of food security, and in this regard taking special actions to combat the
root causes of the disproportionately high level of hunger and malnutrition among
indigenous peoples.
Millennium Development Goal 2 – Achieve universal primary education
71. We commit ourselves to accelerating progress in achieving Millennium
Development Goal 2, including by:
(a) Realizing the right of everyone to education and re-emphasizing that
education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and the
sense of its dignity and shall strengthen respect for human rights and fundamental
freedoms;
(b) Making further progress towards the goal of universal primary education
by building on the gains made during the past decade;
(c) Removing barriers, outside and within education systems, so as to
provide equitable educational and learning opportunities for all children, since
knowledge and education are key factors for sustained, inclusive and equitable
economic growth and for the achievement of all the Millennium Development
Goals, through continued political emphasis on education and by promoting, with
the support of the international community, civil society and the private sector,
appropriate and targeted, evidence-based measures such as abolishing school fees,
providing school meals, ensuring that schools have separate sanitation facilities for
boys and girls and in other ways making primary education for all children
available, accessible and affordable;
(d) Addressing the root causes of the inequalities, disparities and diverse
forms of exclusion and discrimination affecting children, particularly out-of-school
children, including by enhancing enrolment, retention, participation and
achievement of children, by developing and operationalizing an inclusive education
and defining targeted, proactive strategies, policies and programmes, including
cross-sectoral approaches, to promote accessibility and inclusion. In this regard,
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