COPENHAGEN + 5
The Federal Government and the Commitments
of the Copenhagen Summit


BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT

Português

Presentation

On signing the Declaration on Social Development and the Programme of Action of the Copenhagen Summit, in 1995, Brazil and other countries undertook, vis-à-vis of the international community, commitments to be integrated to their national goals in the following years.

Along this period of time, Brazil - Government and society - have truly endeavoured to fulfil the ten commitments agreed upon, although in the midst of vicissitudes and turbulence brought about by two serious international financial crises and having to consolidate the recently achieved stability of its currency.

Indeed, the end of an inflation that poured its most evil effects over the vulnerable and excluded sectors of the Brazilian population is the background against which the country begins to build a less unfair society.

This report describes in a succinct manner the main contributions of the Federal Government to the fulfilment of the commitments undertook five years ago, in Copenhagen.

Brasilia, June, 2000

 

SUMMARY

Commitment 1

To establish a structural environment fitting social development

Commitment 2

To eliminate poverty and fight social exclusion

Commitment 3

To adopt the full-employment target as a priority of economic and social policies

Commitment 4

To foster social integration, the protection of human rights and the elimination of any form of discrimination

Commitment 5

To promote full respect for human dignity and the conquest of equality and equity among women and men

Commitment 6

To render access to quality education and to physical and mental health care universal

Commitment 7

To speed up the development of economic, social and human resources in Africa and in less developed countries

Commitment 8

To make sure that structural adjustment programmes include social-development targets, particularly those related to the struggle against poverty and exclusion

Commitment 9

To significantly increment and more efficiently use resources assigned to social development

Commitment 10

To increase and reinforce actions aimed at international, regional and sub-regional co-operation for social development

Conclusion


 

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