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7.
Also encourages Governments to also cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur in
the performance of the tasks and duties mandated, to furnish all information requested, to
consider the implementation of the recommendations contained in the reports of the Special
Rapporteur, and to react promptly to his or her urgent appeals;
8.
Requests all relevant mechanisms to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur;
9.
Requests the Secretary-General to give the Special Rapporteur all necessary human
and financial assistance for the fulfilment of his or her mandate.
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Adopted without a vote.
8/11. Human rights and extreme poverty
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,
Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006,
Recalling its resolutions 5/1 on institution-building of the Human Rights Council and 5/2
on a code of conduct for special procedures mandate holders of the Council of 18 June 2007, and
stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his or her duties in accordance with these
resolutions and their annexes thereto,
Recalling also all previous resolutions on the issue of human rights and extreme poverty
adopted by the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights, as well as its own
relevant resolutions including Council resolutions 2/2 and 7/27,
Recalling further the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted by Heads of State
and Government on the occasion of the Millennium Summit, and their commitment to eradicate
extreme poverty and to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the world’s people whose income is
less than one dollar a day and of those who suffer from hunger,
Recalling that, in its resolution 62/205 of 19 December 2007, the General Assembly
proclaimed the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017), in
order to support, in an efficient and coordinated manner, the internationally agreed development
goals related to poverty eradication, including the Millennium Development Goals,
Bearing in mind the resolutions of the General Assembly on human rights and extreme
poverty, and the importance they attach to giving persons living in extreme poverty the
wherewithal to organize and participate in all aspects of political, economic and social life,
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