A/RES/74/120
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 25 (b)
Social development: social development, including
questions relating to the world social situation and to
youth, ageing, persons with disabilities and the family
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/391)]
74/120.
Promoting social integration through social inclusion
The General Assembly,
Recalling the World Summit for Social Development, held in Copenhagen from
6 to 12 March 1995, and the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly,
entitled “World Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving social
development for all in a globalizing world”, held in Geneva from 26 June to 1 July
2000, and noting the role of the Commission for Social Development,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 2010/12 of 22 July 2010
on promoting social integration and General Assembly resolution 72/142 of
19 December 2017 and its previous resolutions on promoting social integration
through social inclusion,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, and
its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its t hree dimensions –
economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Recalling its resolution 74/4 of 15 October 2019, in which it endorsed the
political declaration in the annex thereto entitled “Gearing up for a decade of action
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