Stressing also that respect for all human rights, which are universal, indivisible
and interdependent and interrelated, is of crucial importance for all policies and programs
to fight extreme poverty at the local and national levels,
Expressing its gratitude to the former independent expert on the question of
human rights and extreme poverty for the important work accomplished in the discharge
of his mandate, and conscious of the necessity to continue this work,
1.
Acknowledges the report of the Independent Expert on extreme poverty
(A/HRC/7/15), and takes note of his proposed to define extreme poverty as the
combination of income poverty, human development poverty and social exclusion;
2.
Decides to extend the mandate of the independent expert on extreme
poverty for a period of three years, in order to, inter alia:
(a)
Further examine the relationship between the enjoyment of human rights
and extreme poverty;
(b)
Identify alternative approaches to the removal of all obstacles, including
institutional ones, at the regional, national and international, public, corporate and
societal levels, to the full enjoyment of human rights for all people living in extreme
poverty;
(c)
Identify, including in cooperation with international financial
organizations, the most efficient measures taken at the national, regional and international
levels to promote the full enjoyment of human rights of persons living in extreme
poverty;
(d)
Make recommendations on how people living in extreme poverty can
participate in the process towards the full enjoyment of their human rights and the