sustainable improvement of their quality of life, including through empowerment and
resource mobilization at all levels;
(e)
Develop cooperation with other United Nations bodies dealing with
human rights and that are also active in the fight against extreme poverty;
(f)
Participate in the assessment of the implementation of the Second
United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, the internationally agreed goals
contained in the Millennium Declaration, the Monterrey Consensus (A/CONF. 198/11,
chap. I, resolution 1, annex), adopted by the International Conference on Financing for
Development in March 2002, and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on
Sustainable Development;
(g)
Work on the impact of discrimination on extreme poverty, bearing in mind
the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action adopted in September 2001 by the
World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance;
(h)
Pay particular attention to the situation and empowerment of women in
extreme poverty, applying a gender perspective in his or her work;
(i)
Pay particular attention to children living in extreme poverty, as well as to
the most vulnerable groups, including persons with disabilities who live in extreme
poverty;
(j)
Submit recommendations that could contribute to the realization of
Millennium Development Goals, and in particular of goal 1, which consists in the halving
by 2015 the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the
proportion of people who suffer from hunger, taking into account the role of international
assistance and cooperation in reinforcing national actions to reduce extreme poverty;