Social Justice in an Open World: The Role of the United Nations
At the international level, we will: Promote international peace and security and make and support all efforts to settle international disputes by peaceful means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations; Strengthen international cooperation for achieving social development; Promote and implement policies to create a supportive external economic environment, through, inter alia, cooperation in the formulation and implementation of macroeconomic policies, trade liberalization, mobilizationandlor provision of new and additional financial resources that are both adequate and predictable . .. and more equitable access of developing countries to global markets, productive investments and technologies and appropriate knowledge, with due consideration to the needs of countries with economies in transition; Strive to ensure that international agreements relating to trade, investment, technology, debt and official development assistance are implemented in a manner that promotes social development; Support, particularly through technical and financial cooperation, the efforts of developing countries to achieve rapid, broadly based sustainable development; Support, through appropriate international cooperation, the efforts of countries with economies in transition to achieve rapid broadly based sustainable development; Reaffirm and promote human rights, which are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, including the right to development as a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of fundamental human rights, and strive to ensure that they are respected, protected and observed.
Commitment 2 We commit ourselves to the goal of eradicating poverty in the world, through decisive national actions and international cooperation, as an ethical, social, political and economic imperative of humankind. To this end, at the national level, in partnership with all actors of civil society and in the context of a multidimensional and integrated approach, we will: (a)
Formulate or strengthen as a matter or urgency, and preferably by the year 1996; the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty, national policies and strategies geared to substantially reducing overall poverty in the short-