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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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