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Eradication of poverty and other development issues
Date of consideration: 14 November 2005 (AM) & 15
November 2005 (AM)
Second Committee Report
(59th session):
A/59/487
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Documents:
A/60/79
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Identical letters dated 18 May 2005 from
the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations
addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the
General Assembly
A/60/111 [F]
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Letter dated 5 July 2005 from the
Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations
addressed to the Secretary-General
A/C.2/60/3 [F]
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Letter dated 24 August 2005 from the
Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations to the President of the General Assembly
(a) Implementation of the First United Nations Decade
for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006)
Date of consideration: 14 November 2005 (AM) & 15
November 2005 (AM)
Second Committee Report
(59th session):
A/59/487/Add.1
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Documents:
A/60/115
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Letter dated 11 July 2005 from the
representatives of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkey and
the United States of America to the United Nations
addressed to the Secretary-General
A/60/314
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Report of the Secretary-General on
the implementation of the first United Nations Decade
for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006) (Mandate: GA res.
59/247, para. 48)
Summary:
At its fiftieth
session, in 1995, the General Assembly proclaimed the first
United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty
(1997-2006) (resolution 50/107).
The General Assembly continued its
consideration of the question at its fifty-first to
fifty-eighth sessions (resolutions 51/178, 52/193, 53/198,
54/232, 55/210, 56/207 57/266 and 58/222).
At its fifty-ninth session, the General
Assembly, inter alia, requested the Secretary-General to
submit to the Assembly at its sixtieth session a report on the
implementation of its resolution (resolution 59/247).
(b) Women in development
Date of consideration: 14 November 2005 (AM) & 15
November 2005 (AM)
Second Committee Report
(59th session):
A/59/487/Add.2
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Documents:
A/60/84
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Note verbale dated 9 June 2005 from the
Permanent Mission of Burkina Faso to the United Nations
addressed to the Secretary-General
A/60/162
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A/60/162/Corr.1
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Report of the Secretary-General on
the progress made in the implementation of General Assembly resolution 58/206
on women in development (Mandate: GA res.
58/206, para. 36)
Summary:
The General
Assembly considered this question biennially from its fortieth
to fifty- sixth sessions (resolutions 40/204, 42/178, 44/171,
46/167, 48/108, 50/104, 52/195, 54/210 and 56/188).
At its
fifty-eighth session, the General Assembly requested the
Secretary-General to submit to it at its sixtieth session a
report on the progress made in the implementation of the
resolution, including the impact of globalization on the
empowerment of women and their integration in development
(resolution 58/206).
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly took note of the
report of the Secretary-General entitled World Survey on the
Role of Women in Development (A/59/287 and Add.1) and decided
to consider it at its sixtieth session (resolution 59/248).
(c)
Human resources development
Date of consideration: 14 November 2005 (AM) & 15
November 2005 (AM)
Document:
A/60/318
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Report of the Secretary-General on
human resources development (Mandate: GA res.
58/207, para. 18)
Summary:
The General
Assembly considered this question at its forty-fifth session
and biennially as of the forty-sixth session (resolutions
45/191, 46/143, 48/205, 50/105, 52/196, 54/211 and 56/189).
At its
fifty-eighth session, the General Assembly encouraged the
United Nations system to focus in its cooperation activities
on building human and institutional capacity, giving specific
attention to women, girls and vulnerable groups; and requested
the Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at its
sixtieth session a report on the implementation of the
resolution and to include a separate section therein on the
effect of the movement of highly skilled people and those with
an advanced education in human resources development in
developing countries (resolution 58/207).
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