Human Rights and Extreme Poverty

A/RES/57/211View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 109b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2003.

What other versions does this mandate have?

21 versions · 1992–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/178

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/178	Human rights and extreme poverty	3,346	76%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/223	Human rights and extreme poverty	3,464	91%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/175	Human rights and extreme poverty	3,490	77%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/163	Human rights and extreme poverty	2,723	82%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/186	Human rights and extreme poverty	2,466	72%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2002

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2002	A/57/369	Human rights and extreme poverty report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/55/106

What subjects does this mandate have?

12 subjects

Civil and Political Rights Decision-Making Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Human Rights International Decades International Financial Institutions Popular Participation Poverty Poverty Mitigation Right to Development Social Isolation Socially Disadvantaged Persons

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

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;

Also reaffirms that it is essential for States to foster participation by the poorest people in the decision-making process in the societies in which they live, in the promotion of human rights and in efforts to combat extreme poverty, and that it is essential for people living in poverty and vulnerable groups to be empowered to organize themselves and to participate in all aspects of political, economic and social life, in particular the planning and implementation of policies that affect them, thus enabling them to become genuine partners in development;

Emphasizes that extreme poverty is a major issue to be addressed by Governments, civil society and the United Nations system, including international financial institutions, and in this context reaffirms that political commitment is a prerequisite for the eradication of poverty;

Recognizes that surmounting extreme poverty constitutes an essential means to the full enjoyment of political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights, and reaffirms the interrelationship among these goals;

Reaffirms that the existence of widespread absolute poverty inhibits the full and effective enjoyment of human rights and renders democracy and popular participation fragile;

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;

Reaffirms the commitments to the achievement of the development and poverty eradication goals contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration,9 and in the outcome documents of relevant major United Nations conferences, summits and special sessions;

Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, within the framework of the implementation of the United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, to continue to give appropriate attention to the question of human rights and extreme poverty;

Notes with appreciation the specific actions taken by the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to mitigate the effects of extreme poverty on children, and the efforts of the United Nations Development Programme to give priority to the search for some means of alleviating poverty within the framework of the relevant resolutions, and urges them to continue this work;

Calls upon States, United Nations bodies, in particular the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Development Programme, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations to continue to give appropriate attention to the links between human rights and extreme poverty;

Decides to consider this question further at its fifty-ninth session, under the sub-item entitled “Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms”.

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