A/HRC/13/19 Monaco [Original: French] [16 November 2009] The Government of Monaco provided its views on international cooperation in the field of human rights in the framework of the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 23, paragraph 1, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that “everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment”. In this regard, Monaco introduced the Monegasque Cooperation, which, within the frame of its operational area “microeconomic support”, defined its activities along three major areas: microenterprise, agricultural development and microfinance. Monaco provided further information in the following areas: in the area of microenterprise, several thousand women in Morocco, Burkina Faso and Mali had received support in their activities in agriculture production; in the area of rural development, 2,000 people in Morocco and Tunisia had received additional income under the “Oasis” rehabilitation programme and, in Niger, 25,000 people had benefited from a rural development programme; in the area of microfinance, in 2008, the Monegasque Cooperation created a support programme for microfinance of small and medium-sized African microfinance institutions, with the goal of providing technical assistance to microfinance institutions of high social impact and facilitating access to financial services for the poor. Monaco also mentioned its support for facilitating the socioeconomic integration of 200 people living with HIV/AIDS in Burkina Faso, providing access for 50 juveniles to training sessions and insertion in the professional sector, and providing economic support in Kenya that allowed development of microeconomic activities for creating trade. It noted that “Web Cités”, a programme initiated in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme, had helped 5,000 women to have access to microcredit in Niger, Madagascar, Mauritania and Morocco. Article 25, paragraph 1, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing and medical care and necessary social services”. In that regard, Monaco stressed that Monegasque Cooperation had made the fight against poverty a priority, which had been expressed above all by the willingness to work with least developed countries, including Burkina Faso, Burundi, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Senegal and Timor-Leste. Monaco provided detailed information on such cooperation: in the year of 2009, more than 100 projects were planned in 23 countries and more than 70 per cent of its public development aid had been dedicated to least developed countries by bilateral cooperation. Monaco noted that the eight Millennium Development Goals constituted the key to its development cooperation policy, which had four working areas – with health and the social sectors being the most important area. Following that policy, the Monegasque Cooperation had financed and constructed infrastructure providing 870,000 people with basic health facilities, such as ambulances and maternity wards. Among its support programmes, Monaco referred to those of special interest: the access of 150,000 children to programmes combating hunger; in cooperation with the World Health Organization, the vaccination of 100,000 children against poliomyelitis every year; the programme to free the entire Malagasy population from malaria by the creation of a national treatment centre; the creation in Niger, Mali and Madagascar of three treatment centres to fight sickle cell anaemia, the most prevalent genetic disease in the world, with more than 500 million carriers. Article 26, paragraph 1, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that “everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory”. Monaco provided relevant 6 GE.10-10005