A/HRC/RES/15/19 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 6 October 2010 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifteenth session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council* 15/19 Draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights The Human Rights Council, Recalling that, in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights, the ideal of free human beings enjoying freedom from fear and want can be achieved only if conditions are created whereby everyone may enjoy his or her economic, social and cultural rights, as well as his or her civil and political rights, Recalling also all previous resolutions on the issue of human rights and extreme poverty adopted by the General Assembly and the importance they attach to giving persons living in extreme poverty the wherewithal to organize and participate in all aspects of political, economic, social and cultural life, Recalling further all previous resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights, as well as relevant Council resolutions, including resolutions 2/2 of 27 November 2006, 7/27 of 28 March 2008 and 8/11 of 18 June 2008, in which it extended the mandate of the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, as well as its resolution 12/19 of 2 October 2009, in which it invited the independent expert to submit a progress report presenting her recommendations on how to improve the draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights to the Council at its fifteenth session, Reaffirming, in this regard, the commitments made at relevant United Nations conferences and summits, including those made at the World Summit for Social Development, held in Copenhagen in 1995, at the Millennium Summit, at which Heads of State and Government committed themselves to eradicate extreme poverty and to halve, by * GE.10-16691 The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its fifteenth session (A/HRC/15/60), chap. I.