6.1 commit to ending poverty: after
having committed to ending poverty by 2015 through the Millennium
Development Goals, the moment has come to commit to ending child
poverty and extreme poverty by 2025;
6.2 take action to combat the poverty of women and adopt a
gender-specific perspective as a key component of all policies and
national programmes to eradicate poverty and combat social exclusion;
6.3 make the voice of people living in poverty heard: consider
developing new forms of governance and participation to bring together
and empower people and communities affected by poverty, and promote
social inclusion for all;
6.4 ensure that poverty reduction strategies are based on
principles of human rights, securing, in particular, access to and
full enjoyment of individual and community social rights by people
and communities affected by poverty;
6.5 adopt a plan of action that sets, in particular, specific,
quantified goals;
6.6 strengthen international assistance and co-operation aimed
at reducing poverty, in particular through the Council of Europe
standard-setting mechanisms in the field of social security;
6.7 promote investment in human capital, business capital,
infrastructure, in particular of poor areas, natural capital, public
institutional capital, and knowledge capital, as there is no security
and development without investment;
6.8 increase investment in early childhood development, education
and schooling, with a view to raising the level of qualification
of young people leaving the education system and reducing the school drop-out
rate;
6.9 take measures to enable, in particular, full access to
employment opportunities, adequate medical assistance and housing,
without discrimination;
6.10 secure the right to fair remuneration through the provision
of an adequate minimum wage, recognising the right of workers to
a remuneration that gives them and their families a decent standard of
living;
6.11 provide minimum-income guarantees to ensure the social
inclusion of people for whom employment is not an option or who
do not have the capacity to work;
6.12 ensure that strategies and actions meet the needs of those
affected by poverty, prevent people from falling into poverty by
providing them with support in critical situations, and assist those
who are in poverty to recover;
6.13 adopt a multi-stakeholder approach to tackling poverty-related
issues, taking due account of the responsibilities of those involved:
trade unions, businesses, financial institutions, public governing bodies,
and in particular central, regional and local governments, civil
society, etc.;
6.14 contribute to the development of science in order to find
new solutions, to disseminate good practices and to address the
unmet needs of people living in poverty;
6.15 contribute to strengthening social cohesion through volunteering
as an additional means to combat poverty;
6.16 prevent the intergenerational transmission of poverty,
in particular through the promotion of intergenerational solidarity
and family cohesion. The dissolution of the family is one of the
main causes of poverty and the strengthening of family ties is a
significant part of integrated policies to combat poverty. Particular
attention needs to be paid to large families because children from
these families are very often poor;
6.17 adopt a positive attitude, with the aim of promoting prosperity
and improving well-being for all.
