A/RES/67/164. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2012

• Resolution Number: A/RES/67/164
• Year: 2012
• Session: 67th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/67/164

General Assembly Distr.: General

13 March 2013

Sixty-seventh session

Agenda item 69 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/67/457/Add.2 and Corr.1)]

67/164. Human rights and extreme poverty

The General Assembly

,

Reaffirming

the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

1

the International

Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,

2

the International Covenant on Economic,

Social and Cultural Rights,

2

the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of

Discrimination against Women,

3

the Convention on the Rights of the Child,

4

the

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,

5

the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

6

and other human rights

instruments adopted by the United Nations,

Recalling

its resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992, by which it declared

17 October the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, and its resolution

62/205 of 19 December 2007, by which it proclaimed the Second United Nations

Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017), as well as its resolution 65/214

of 21 December 2010 and its previous resolutions on human rights and extreme

poverty, in which it reaffirmed 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,

Recalling also

its resolution 52/134 of 12 December 1997, in which it

recognized that the enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human

rights was essential for the effective understanding, promotion and protection of all

human rights,

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1 Resolution 217 A (III).

2 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

3 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.

4 Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.

5 Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464.

6 Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.