Eliminating Inequality Within and Among States for the Realization of Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/45/14View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2020.

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6 subjects

Anti-Discrimination Measures Covid-19 Equality Health Care Delivery Human Rights Socially Disadvantaged Persons

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10 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that extreme poverty, deep inequality and exclusion constitute a violation of human rights and dignity, and that urgent national and international action is therefore required to eliminate them;

Decides to work in a systematic manner to give due consideration to address inequality within and among States by sharing best practices, challenges and lessons learned concerning integrated approaches to the promotion and protection of human rights and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

Calls upon States:

To continuously analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their objectives to achieve equality, and to share the outcomes thereof;

To ensure protection for those most affected, namely women, children, youth, persons with disabilities, people living with HIV/AIDS, older persons, indigenous peoples, refugees and internally displaced persons and migrants, and the poor, vulnerable and marginalized segments of the population, and to prevent all forms of discrimination, especially in the context of timely, universal, inclusive, equitable and non-discriminatory access to safe, quality, effective and affordable health care and services and medical supplies and equipment, including diagnostics, therapeutics, medicine and vaccines, and to leave no one behind, endeavouring to reach the furthest behind first, founded on the dignity of the human person and reflecting the principles of equality and non-discrimination;

Recognizes the need for greater international cooperation to further reduce inequality within and among States and to increase capacity-building support to countries with the most constrained resources to ensure that social expenditures meet certain targets as part of their efforts to further promote and protect human rights for all;

Decides, in order to have a clear line of sight with respect to inequalities as States “build back better” after the pandemic, to hold at its forty-eighth session a half-day panel discussion on deepening inequalities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and their implications for the realization of human rights, and requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to make the discussion fully accessible to persons with disabilities, and to prepare a summary report on the discussion and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-first session;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to organize the above-mentioned panel discussion and to collaborate with States and other relevant stakeholders, including United Nations agencies, funds and programmes within their respective mandates, civil society organizations, and national human rights institutions, in order to ensure multi-stakeholder participation in the panel discussion;

Requests all mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, the treaty bodies and relevant stakeholders to pay particular attention to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, including Goal 10;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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