Excerpts from document A/61/100 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
● Item 60: Social development:
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At its sixtieth session, the General Assembly approved the programme of work of the Third Committee for the sixty-first session, which contained the item (decision 60/537). The item has therefore been included in the provisional agenda of the sixty-first session.
(a) Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
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At its forty-seventh session, in 1992, the General Assembly decided to convene a World Summit for Social Development at the level of Heads of State or Government (resolution 47/92). The Summit was held at Copenhagen from 6 to 12 March 1995. The item entitled “Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development” was included in the agenda of the fiftieth session of the Assembly at the request of Denmark (A/50/192). At the same session, the Assembly decided to hold a special session of the Assembly in 2000 for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the outcome of the Summit and to consider further actions and initiatives (resolution 50/161). 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”, was held at Geneva from 26 June to 1 July 2000.
The General Assembly considered the item at its fifty-first to fifty-ninth sessions (resolutions 51/202, 52/25, 53/28, 54/23, 55/46, 56/177, 57/163, 58/130 and 59/146).
At its sixtieth session, the General Assembly reaffirmed that the Commission for Social Development would continue to have the primary responsibility for the follow-up and review of the World Summit for Social Development and the outcome of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly; invited the Secretary-General, the Economic and Social Council, the regional commissions, the relevant specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental forums to continue to give priority attention to the commitments set out in the Copenhagen Declaration and the Programme of Action and to be actively involved in their follow-up; and requested the Secretary-General to submit a report on the question to the Assembly at its sixty-first session (resolution 60/130).
(b) Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family
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At its sixtieth session, the General Assembly approved the programme of work of the Third Committee for the sixty-first session, which contained the sub-item (decision 60/537). The sub-item has therefore been included in the provisional agenda of the sixty-first session.
(c) United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all
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The issue of education for all was considered by the General Assembly at its fifty-second and fifty-fourth sessions (resolutions 52/84 and 54/122). At its fifty-sixth session, the Assembly proclaimed the 10-year period beginning on 1 January 2003 the United Nations Literacy Decade; and requested the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to develop and finalize a well-targeted and action-oriented plan of action (resolution 56/116).
The General Assembly continued its consideration of the question at its fifty-seventh session (resolution 57/166).
At its fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to seek the views of Member States on the progress achieved in implementing their national programmes and plans for the Decade and to submit progress reports on the implementation of the International Plan of Action to the Assembly on a biennial basis, beginning in 2006 (resolution 59/149).
(d) Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing
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At its fifty-fourth session, in 1999, the General Assembly entrusted the Commission for Social Development with the revision of the International Plan of Action on Ageing and the elaboration of a long-term strategy on ageing, based on new developments since 1982 (resolution 54/24). At its resumed fifty-fourth session, in May 2000, the Assembly decided to convene the Second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the First World Assembly on Ageing held at Vienna (resolution 54/262).
At its fifty-seventh session, in 2002, the General Assembly welcomed the report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, held in Madrid from 8 to 12 April 2002, and endorsed the Political Declaration and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (resolution 57/167).
At its fifty-eighth session, the General Assembly took note of the road map for the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002 (see A/58/160) (resolution 58/134).
The General Assembly continued its consideration of the item at its fifty-ninth session (resolution 59/150).
At its sixtieth session, the General Assembly stressed the need for additional capacity-building at the national level, including the collection of data and population statistics disaggregated by age and sex on all aspects of policy formulation by all countries, in order to promote and facilitate implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing; encouraged the relevant entities of the United Nations system to support national efforts in capacity-building, especially those of developing countries and countries with economies in transition; and requested the Secretary-General to report to it at its sixty-first session on the implementation of the resolution (resolution 60/135).
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