A/HRC/RES/31/5 Welcoming the initiatives undertaken to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 2016, Recalling the commitment included in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to ensure the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights set forth in the Covenant, Recognizing that human rights and social protection floors complement each other, and that social protection floors, when used as a baseline, have the potential to facilitate the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights and to reduce poverty and inequality, Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the General Assembly in its resolution 70/1 on 25 September 2015, in which the Assembly adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative sustainable development goals and targets, and aiming to contribute to full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, Welcoming also the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 69/313 on 27 July 2015, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports and complements it and helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with concrete policies and actions, and which reaffirmed the strong political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity, 1. Calls upon all States to give full effect to economic, social and cultural rights by, inter alia, taking all appropriate measures to implement the Human Rights Council resolutions on the question of the realization in all countries of economic, social and cultural rights, the most recent of which is resolution 28/12 of 26 March 2015; 2. Calls upon all States that have not yet signed and ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to consider doing so as a matter of priority, and States parties to consider reviewing their reservations thereto; 3. Welcomes the more recent ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and encourages all States that have not yet signed and ratified the Optional Protocol to consider doing so, and also to consider making declarations under articles 10 and 11 thereof; 4. Acknowledges that social protection floors may facilitate the enjoyment of human rights, including the rights to social security, the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, clothing and housing, education, and safe drinking water and sanitation, in accordance with the human rights obligations of States, and in this regard underlines the importance of compliance with the principles of non-discrimination, transparency, participation and accountability; 5. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the question of the realization in all countries of economic, social and cultural rights, with a special focus on the methodologies used at the national level to measure the realization of economic, social and cultural rights, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 28/12,1 and of the conclusions contained therein; 1 2 A/HRC/31/31.