E/CN.4/1999/48 page 36 countries. Access to education is the key factor in integrating migrants, and contact with migrants' countries of origin also constitutes a promising approach. 147. International economic sanctions, particularly when imposed by the Security Council, should be conceived in such a way as to avoid aggravating conditions of extreme poverty in the countries concerned. In particular, they should be compatible with the effective exercise of human rights - and especially economic, social and cultural rights - by civilians. M. Draft declaration 148. A meeting with the independent expert should be organized in 1999 in order to draw up for the international community the basic elements of a preliminary draft declaration on human rights and extreme poverty. The draft should use as its starting point the preamble common to the two international Covenants of 1966, as well as other relevant instruments which recognize that the ideal of the free individual, delivered from fear and poverty, cannot be achieved without the creation of conditions allowing each person to enjoy all human rights. 149. The draft should call on States to base their anti-poverty policy on human rights that aim at the eradication, rather than the reduction, of poverty. It should also provide guarantees for the future after poverty has been eradicated. State strategies, devised in partnership with the populations involved and their representative organizations, should aim at enabling the poorest of the poor to exercise the full range of rights and freedoms granted to citizens in their country. Notes 1.UNDP, Overcoming Human Poverty, New York, 1998. The information attributed to UNDP in the present report comes from this publication, unless otherwise noted. 2.Development and Human Rights: The Role of the World Bank, Washington D.C., 1998, p. 2. The information attributed to the World Bank in the present report comes from this publication, unless otherwise noted. 3.UNDP, Human Development Report 1997, New York/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 93. -----

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