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United Nations, Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 6-12 March 1995 (DPIII707-9515294; August 1995), foreword, p. v.
30
United Nations, "lrnplementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development" (A/RES/50/161; 22 December 1995), para. 24.
31
United Nations, "Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the twentyfourth special session of the General Assembly", Official Records, twenty-fourth special session, supplement 3 (NS-24/8/Rev.l), annex on further initiatives for social development; also see resolution S-2412 on further initiatives for social development (1 July 2000).
32
United Nations, Commission for Social Development, Declaration on the Tenth Anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development, adopted on 11 February 2005 by the Commission at its forty-third session, held in New York from 9 to 18 February.
33
United Nations, "We the Peoples": The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century-Millennium Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (A/54/2000; 27 March 2000).
34
Equally specific policy prescriptions appear in the outcome document of the special session held in Geneva in 2000.
35
United Nations, "We the Peoples": The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century-Millennium Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (N54/2000; 27 March 2000).
36
United Nations, "In larger freedom: towards security, development and human rights for all: report of the Secretary-General" (N5912Q05;21 March 2005).
37
Rawls, op. cit., p. 6; see, in particular, chapter 5, on distributive shares.
38
Ibid., pp. 53 and 266.
39
The "just savings principle" is based on the idea that "each generation must not only preserve the gains of culture and civilization, and maintain intact those institutions that have been established, but it must also put aside in each period of time a suitable amount of real capital accumulation. This saving may take various forms, from net investment in machinery and other means of production to investment in learning and education" (ibid., p. 252.)