Ecosoc, last resolution

RESOLUTION1.1

Committee:ECOSOC

Topic Area A: The measures taken by governments at worldwide level to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

Sponsored by: Canada

Submitted by: UK, Ireland , Austria, Germany, Spain, Portugal , Georgia,Italy,France,Finland,India,Argentina,Bolivia,Israel,Tunisia,Sweden,China,Luxemburg,Finland,Switzerland

A) Acknowledging clauses poverty and hunger are closely related. Extreme poverty is almost always at the root of chronic hunger. Poor people do not possess the means to access or produce the food necessary for an active and healthy life and are more vulnerable to destitution following extreme events. However, hunger also impacts negatively on longer term sustainable development through its negative impact on health, disease and mortality. Hunger causes the loss of millions of productive life years as a result of disease, disabilities and premature death;
B) Recognizing that the challenge of eradicating poverty and hunger requires a comprehensive and multidimensional response by the United Nations system, including the funds, programmes and agencies, as an appropriate within their respective mandates;

C) Acknowledging that poverty and hunger have social, cultural, political, environmental and other dimensions;


D) Noting with great concern the outburst of a worldwide crisis and the continuously increasing number of the unemployed and extendedly of the poor and their hypothetical protection and assistance which continues to be in jeopardy as a result of the undignified apathy to the treats to their lives, their dignity and well- being and failure to respect and ensure them as human beings;

E) Having devoted attention to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially article twenty five (25) where a satisfactory way of life should be accessible to every person and their family;

F) Recalling the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, in 1995, in which three major objectives had been discussed, regarding: promotion of employment, the fight against poverty and consolidation of social cohesion in our countries;

G)Viewing with appreciation the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), that have a very important aim- the elimination of poverty around the world – so in conjunction with the elimination of hunger which takes thousands of lives;

1) Urges all parties to take serious consideration of the issue being faced;

2) Encourage Member States to use the International Day for the eradication of poverty as an important tool for all citizens and stakeholders to become aware of the need to join efforts to eradicate poverty and end social exclusion and to ensure that the International Day and its message are widely known by using a variety of means, including the media, the Internet and national campaigns, to disseminate information about the eradication of extreme poverty and as a consequence hunger;

3) Calls upon Member States, the United Nation system and all the other countries which face problems to cooperate with goals to succeed in preserving and creating jobs, to make further progress;

4) Urges states and relevant organization to support the search for food and clothing supplies;

5) Providing proper education with international funds , because educated people are more economically stable and they also are less prone to health problems that are caused by the lack education on various matters;

6) Encourages debt relief. Given that many less developed nations have gotten themselves into extensive debt to banks and governments from the rich nations, and given that the interest payments on these debts are often more than a country can generate per year in profits from exports, canceling part or all of these debts may allow poor nations “to get out of the hole”. Observing that it may not change the underlying conditions that have led to less long-term development in the first place;

7) Calls upon the most Developed Governments and the UN to set as a priority agricultural growth which plays a critical role in enhancing food security and reducing poverty in developing countries;




8)Further demands access to land and other natural resources which is vital for ensuring sustainable reduction of poverty and ensuring is vital for ensuring sustainable reduction of poverty and ensuring food security;

9) Further reminds that stable economic and social development is not possible in the long term without respect to human rights and femocracy. There is no justification for denying their civil and political rights for the sake of economic objectives. The United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights evokes in its preamble the vision of free human being , which includes freedom from “fear and want”. This freedom from fear and want comprises with both a secure living and civil and political freedom;

10) Secures income support by : developing the national pension system;

11) Draws attention to carefully targeted programmes provide immediate hunger relies by the most developed governments ;

12) Urges the developing countries governments provide social acceptance of the women insert to the labor force, the creation of more jobs for women and institutions in place to help them combine work and family responsibilities ;

13)Request peace and stability which are of main importance conditions for growth and poverty reduction
Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.