A Summary of Principal Commitments of the 
World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 1995
 
 
Introduction
The following summary contains the ten main commitments in the Copenhagen Declaration which was agreed at the World Summit for Social Development. Under each of these main commitments, it summarises other key commitments from the Declaration and from the Programme of Action which was also agreed at the Summit. 

The commitments are divided here into two parts, namely 
  

Part I  Priorities for Action summarising Commitments 1-8 of the Declaration and Chapters 1-4 of the Programme of Action

 
Part II  Resources and International Implementation summarising Commitments  9-10 of the Declaration and Chapter 5 of the Programme of Action