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resources for development, including official development assistance and from imposing
protectionist measures, and to maintain their commitments to mobilize and sustain financial
resources for development, in accordance with the Monterrey Consensus on Financing for
Development, and to make concerted and sustained efforts to contribute to an early recovery;
5.
Calls upon States to note that the global economic and financial crises do not
diminish the responsibility of national authorities and the international community in the
realization of human rights and calls upon them to assist, in particular, the most vulnerable in
this regard, and in this context urges the international community to support national efforts to,
inter alia, establish and preserve social safety nets for the protection of the most vulnerable
segments of their societies;
6.
Calls on States to ensure that those at risk of being most affected by the global
economic and financial crises are protected in a non-discriminatory way;
7.
Reaffirms that an open, equitable, predictable and non-discriminatory multilateral
trading system can substantially stimulate development worldwide, benefiting all countries,
particularly developing countries, and thereby contributing to the universal realization and
effective enjoyment of all human rights;
8.
Recognizes the central role of the United Nations in the international system and
welcomes the decision by the General Assembly to hold a high-level conference on the world
economic and financial crises and its impacts on development due to take place from
1 to 4 June 2009; and in this context, recommends that an invitation be addressed by the
General Assembly to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to participate in
this high-level event and to present a report with suggested recommendations, building on the
deliberations of this special session, so as to mainstream a human rights perspective in the
analysis of the global economic and financial crises;
9.
Invites relevant thematic Special Procedures, within their respective mandates,
building on the deliberations of this special session, to consider any of the impacts of the global
economic and financial crises on the realization and effective enjoyment of all human rights
particularly economic, social and cultural rights, and to integrate their findings in this regard in
their regular reports presented to the Human Rights Council, with special attention to
non-discrimination and to ways and means to ensure respect for and protection of the human
rights of vulnerable and marginalized groups, particularly women, children, migrants, migrant
workers and their families, indigenous peoples, and people living in poverty, and on the
elimination of acts of racism and xenophobia and promoting greater harmony and tolerance in all
societies;
10. Invites the treaty bodies, within their respective mandates, to consider any of the
impacts of the global economic and financial crises on the realization and effective enjoyment of
all human rights, and to consider presenting recommendations thereon;
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