A/HRC/45/39 States must take into account the recommendations addressed to them in the context of the universal periodic review process and the consideration by human rights treaty bodies of their periodic reports and individual communications, as well as recommendations made in the reports of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council. 20. In the political declaration of the high-level political forum on sustainable development, Heads of State and Government committed to focusing their policies and actions on the poorest and most vulnerable, to realizing the Sustainable Development Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for all nations and peoples and for all segments of society and to reaching the furthest behind first. A. Ending extreme poverty in all its forms everywhere 21. Sustainable Development Goal 1 sets out the commitment to eradicate, by 2030, extreme poverty for all people everywhere and to reduce by at least half the proportion of those living in poverty in all its dimensions. Close to 10 per cent of the world population continues to live below the extreme poverty line, on less than $2 per day, on all continents. 4 In the Human Development Report 2019, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recommends looking beyond income, beyond averages and beyond today and asking for enhanced capabilities. 22. Recent reports show that extreme poverty has been reduced, but the rate of extreme poverty is still projected to be at 6 per cent in 2030, missing the global target to eradicate it. Moreover, according to statements made during the high-level political forum on sustainable development in 2018, some people are pushed further behind because of discrimination, environmental degradation, globalization and deliberate policies dispossessing them of their land, livelihoods, rights – and sometimes their lives. It was underscored that they should not be neglected. 5 At the high-level political forum, the special representative of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development stated that persistent gender income gaps, stark economic inequality and obesity were affecting more than 30 per cent of Member States that were developed countries. 6 23. Poverty is multidimensional, affects mainly rural areas and is exacerbated by violent conflict and climate change. It involves an interplay of social, political and economic factors and concerns not only the income available to individuals, but also their access to health care, affordable food, drinking water and sanitation, housing, high-quality education and a healthy environment. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean has made it a priority to implement the 2030 Agenda in such a way that places equality at the centre, through a balanced integration of economic and social development and environmental dimensions. The Commission is of the view that inequality is a source of economic inefficiency, that social inequality gives rise to adverse economic and social consequences, societies stratified by economic status, age, sex, disability, ethnicity, origin or religion and that it is not an inevitable outcome, but one that can be successfully addressed (E/2019/19, sect. V). The Commission adopted a report on an interregional perspective on promoting equality, including a consensus to move towards more egalitarian, cohesive and solidarity-based societies. 24. Reports received from many States do not contain information on specific programmes or measures aimed at eliminating or reducing poverty, as required under the 2030 Agenda, and do not refer to reducing poverty in all its dimensions. 4 5 6 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs and others, World Economic Situation and Prospects, 2020 (UNDP, New York, 2020), p. 22 Economic and Social Council, press release No. 6939; recent reports include United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Social Report 2020, (United Nations, New York, 2020); and United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019 (UNDP, New York, 2019). Economic and Social Council, press release No. 6999 of 9 July 2019. 7