Human rights and extreme poverty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Reaffirms that extreme poverty and exclusion from society constitute a violation of human dignity and that urgent national and international action is therefore required to eliminate them; recognizes the need to promote respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in order to address the most pressing social needs of people living in poverty, including through the design and development of appropriate mechanisms to strengthen and consolidate democratic institutions and governance; invites the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to give high priority to the question of the relationship between extreme poverty and human rights, and also invites her to further pursue the work in this area.

Adopted without vote, 81st plenary meeting

4 p.

Issued in GAOR, 61st sess., Suppl. no. 49.