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| 9. | Eradicate poverty as an ethical, social, and environmental imperative.
| a. | Guarantee the right to potable water, clean air,
food security, uncontaminated soil, shelter, and safe sanitation, allocating the national and international resources required.
| b. | Empower every human being with the education
and resources to secure a sustainable livelihood, and provide social security and safety nets for those who are unable to support themselves.
| c. | Recognize the ignored, protect the vulnerable,
serve those who suffer, and enable them to develop their capacities and to pursue their aspirations.
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| 10. | Ensure that economic activities and institutions at all levels promote human development in an equitable and sustainable manner.
| a. | Promote the equitable distribution of wealth within nations and among nations.
| b. | Enhance the intellectual, financial, technical, and social resources of developing nations, and relieve them of onerous international debt.
| c. | Ensure that all trade supports sustainable
resource use, environmental protection, and progressive labor standards.
| d. | Require multinational corporations and international financial organizations to act transparently in the public good, and hold them accountable for the consequences of their activities.
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| 11. | Affirm gender equality and equity as prerequisites to sustainable development and ensure universal access to education, health care, and economic opportunity.
| a. | Secure the human rights of women and girls and
end all violence against them.
| b. | Promote the active participation of women in all
aspects of economic, political, civil, social, and cultural life as full and equal partners, decision makers, leaders, and beneficiaries.
| c. | Strengthen families and ensure the safety and
loving nurture of all family members.
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| 12. | Uphold the right of all, without discrimination, to a natural and social environment supportive of human dignity, bodily health, and spiritual wellbeing, with special attention to the rights of indigenous peoples and minorities.
| a. | Eliminate discrimination in all its forms, such as
that based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, language, and national, ethnic or social origin.
| b. | Affirm the right of indigenous peoples to their
spirituality, knowledge, lands and resources and to their related practice of sustainable livelihoods.
| c. | Honor and support the young people of our communities, enabling them to fulfill their essential role in creating sustainable societies.
| d. | Protect and restore outstanding places of cultural and spiritual significance.
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