وإذ تنوه بما قامت به الهيئات المنشأة بموجب معاهدات الأمم المتحدة، ولا سيما اللجنة المعنية بالحقوق الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والثقافية، من عمل على تعزيز الحقوق المتصلة بالسكن الملائم،
Welcoming the inclusion of “adequate shelter” in the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development as an element for achieving socially, economically and environmentally sustainable development, and the resolve of the heads of State and Government, expressed in the Millennium Declaration, to have achieved, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least one hundred million slum dwellers,