A/RES/73/163
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 74 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/589/Add.2)]
73/163.
Human rights and extreme poverty
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United
Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 2 and the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights, 2 the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, 3 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, 4 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 5 the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 6 and all 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, as well as its
resolution 71/186 of 19 December 2016 and its previous resolutions on human rights
and extreme poverty, in which it reaffirmed that extreme poverty and exclusion from
society constituted a violation of human dignity and an obstacle to the fulfilment of
all human rights and that urgent national and international action was 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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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
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