Decent work sums up the aspirations of people in their working lives – their aspirations for opportunity and income; rights, voice and recognition; family stability and personal development; and fairness and gender equality. Ultimately these various dimensions of decent work underpin peace in communities and society. Decent work reflects the concerns of governments, workers and employers, who together provide the ILO with its unique tripartite identity.

This resolution [59/233] looks at natural disasters and vulnerability in the overall context of climate change, Kyoto protocol and as part of the efforts on Sustainable Development and pushes for an inclusive look at all these elements under he worldwide Disaster Reduction efforts.

Reaffirming the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, adopted at Stockholm on 16 June 1972, and seeking to build upon it, with the goal of establishing a new and equitable global partnership through the creation of new levels of cooperation among States, key sectors of societies and people, which respect the interests of all and protect the integrity of the global environmental and developmental system and recognizing the integral and interdependent nature of the Earth the Rio Declaration expounds 27 Principles that form the basis for a common platform to address issues relating to the environment and development.

The participants in the Bishkek Global Mountain Summit, the culminating global event of the International Year of Mountains 2002, came up with the Declaration under Chapter 13, Agenda 21 (Managing fragile ecosystems: sustainable mountain development). Including elements from the MDG’s the Declaration focuses on the role and needs of mountain ecosystems and the importance thereof.

In recognition of 1993 as the United Nations International Year for the World's Indigenous Peoples and to consider a range of significant issues, including; the value of indigenous knowledge, biodiversity and biotechnology, customary environmental management, arts, music, language and other physical and spiritual cultural forms the Declaration recommends a set of actions for Indigenous Peoples, States and the UN to undertake a set of activities and urges adequate funding for the same.

Dealing with the rights of indigenous peoples of the world, this declaration was 20 years in the making, and covers, under 46 articles, the various issues that deal with indigenous rights and access thereto (Adopted by General Assembly Resolution 61/295 on 13 September, 2007). It is claimed that the Declaration contains no new provisions of human rights. It affirms many rights already contained in international human rights treaties, but rights that have been denied to the Indigenous Peoples. It is seen as a guarantee that rights to self-determination, to lands and territories, to cultural identities, to representation and to values and beliefs will be respected at the international level. It is interesting to note that only four countries in the world voted [America, Canada, Australia & New Zealand] against this declaration in 2007.

The Millennium Declaration was adopted during the Millennium Summit [Sep 2000] by world leaders from more than 170 countries. The Declaration sets out within a single framework the key challenges facing humanity at the threshold of the new millennium, outlines a response to these challenges, and establishes concrete measures for judging performance through a set of inter-related security and human rights. This meeting was the largest gathering of world leaders in history as of the year 2000. It was followed by the World Summit five years later, which took place in September 2005. It is from this declaration that the Millennium Development Goals were promoted in the years following the summit.