The pillar of sustainable development is centred on people and the planet, underpinned by human rights and supported by global partnerships focused to lift people out of poverty, hunger and disease. Therefore, global cooperation and solidarity is their basic foundation. For the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), solidarity is one of the fundamental and universal values which determines the relationships between peoples and countries around the world in the 21st century, through its Millennium Declaration resolution 60/209 on 22 December 2005. To disseminate this fundamental value of international relations at a global level, 20 December was proclaimed as the International Human Solidarity Day by the UNGA, it was based on an ideology that help has to be provided by those who are more benefitted to whom who are either suffering or are least benefitted. The theme and basic purpose of International Human Solidarity Day are to eradicate poverty and promote the culture of cooperation, equality and social justice, which tends to human and social development particularly in developing countries.

Equality is at the heart of human rights, and as we are amidst rising global inequalities and the pandemic, international solidarity has become even more crucial. The solution required to carry us through this period of the global crisis is also solidarity. Also, the global body is dependent upon cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian nature to a larger extent and here solidarity plays a key role. It has strengthened the belief that international solidarity and cooperation is essentially a combating weapon to defeat ills like poverty.