A Fair Globalization : Creating Opportunities for All - Report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 55 Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit, published in 2004.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Equal Opportunity Globalization Information Exchange International Financial Institutions Report Preparation Social Aspects

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization entitled A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All,⁷ as a contribution to the international dialogue towards a fully inclusive and equitable globalization;

⁷See A/59/98-E/2004/79.

Decides to consider the wider challenges and opportunities linked to the issue of globalization, including those in the report of the World Commission, within the framework of the comprehensive review of the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration,1 under resolution 58/291, and the ten-year review of the further implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development by the Commission for Social Development in 2005;

Calls upon the organs and bodies of the United Nations, and invites the organizations of the United Nations system, to consider within their mandates the report of the World Commission, and also calls upon Member States to consider the report;

Invites relevant organizations of the United Nations system and other relevant multilateral bodies to provide information to the Secretary-General on their activities to promote an inclusive and equitable globalization;

Requests the Secretary-General to take into account, inter alia, the report of the World Commission in his comprehensive report for the high-level review of 2005 at the sixtieth session of the General Assembly, within the follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit of the United Nations.

Reissued for technical reasons.

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