A/RES/72/233
Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade
for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017)
underlying the decent work agenda and strengthening system-wide policy coherence
on employment issues, including by avoiding the duplication of efforts;
48. Calls upon the relevant organizations of the United Nations system, within
their respective mandates and resources, to ensure that no one is left behind and no
country is left behind in the implementation of the present resolution;
49. Urges the international community, including the United Nations system,
to implement the outcome documents relating to the internationally agreed
development goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals, as established by
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the unfinished business of the
Millennium Development Goals, and the means of implementation, including the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda;
50. Stresses that the impacts of natural disasters, climate change, conflicts and
major outbreaks of disease are severely hampering efforts to achieve poverty
eradication, in particular in developing countries, and calls upon the international
community to give priority to addressing them;
51. Recognizes the importance of addressing the diverse needs of and
challenges faced by countries in special situations, in p articular African countries, the
least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island
developing States, as well as the specific challenges facing many middle -income
countries, and therefore requests the United Nations development system, the
international financial institutions, regional organizations and other stakeholders to
ensure that these diverse and specific development needs are appropriately considered
and addressed, in a tailored fashion, in their relevant strategies and po licies, with a
view to promoting a coherent and comprehensive approach towards individual
countries;
52. Invites all States, organizations of the United Nations system,
intergovernmental organizations concerned and interested national organizations,
including non-governmental organizations, to consider organizing activities for the
celebration in 2018 of the twenty-sixth anniversary of the declaration by the General
Assembly, in its resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992, of 17 October as the
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, in order to raise public awar eness to
promote the eradication of poverty and extreme poverty in all countries, and in this
regard recognizes the useful role that the observance of the International Day
continues to play in raising public awareness and mobilizing all stakeholders in th e
fight against poverty and promoting the active participation of those living in extreme
poverty in the design and implementation of programmes and policies which affect
them, with the aim of achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
53. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-third session a report that details the response of the United Nations system
to the theme of the Third Decade, includes an inter-agency, system-wide plan of
action for poverty eradication to coordinate the efforts of the United Nations system,
and contains recommendations concerning how to make the Third United Nations
Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018–2027) effective, in support of the
poverty eradication-related internationally agreed development goals, including the
Sustainable Development Goals, utilizing, as appropriate, existing expertise and
poverty-related follow-up mechanisms and processes;
54. Considers that the theme of the Third Decade, to be reviewed at the
seventy-third session of the General Assembly, shall be “Accelerating global actions
for a world without poverty” in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development;
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