Observance of the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty and proclamation of the 1st United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
1995
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SymbolA/RES/50/107
TitleObservance of the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty and proclamation of the 1st United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
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Summary
Decides that activities during the Year shall be guided, inter alia, by the following principles: (a) a sustained, collective commitment and effort shall be mounted and anti-poverty strategies and programmes shall be designed, implemented and monitored with the full and effective participation of people living in poverty; (b) measures shall be adopted to ensure that people living in poverty have access to the resources and opportunities necessary to escape from poverty, and policies shall be adopted to ensure that all people have adequate economic and social protection during unemployment, ill health, maternity, child-rearing, widowhood, disability and old age; (c) access to all people living in poverty to basic social services shall be ensured as well as their participation in the economic, social, cultural and political life of society; (d) women shall be given the opportunities to contribute to development, and anti-poverty strategies and programmes shall be designed with a gender dimension; (e) targeted programmes shall be developed to meet the special needs of particular social and demographic groups; takes note of the decision taken by the Administrator of UNDP to establish an eradication of poverty fund for the duration of the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty; proclaims the 1st UN Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006).
Action note1995-12-20
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 96th meeting
Meeting record
A/50/PV.96
Agenda information
A/50/251 95i International cooperation for the eradication of poverty in developing countries. POVERTY
Date[New York] : UN, 26 Jan. 1996.
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7 p.
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Adopted at the 96th plenary meeting, 20 Dec. 1995.