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from those three elements can help the Working Group on the Right to Development
to further improve and strengthen its collaborative efforts to fulfil its mandate in
accordance with the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1998/72 and Human
Rights Council resolution 4/4;
(b)
Developing separate sets of guidelines with contextualized
implementation strands. Future documents could take the form of multisectoral
outcomes of a varying legal nature as appropriate to the specific context in which they
are intended to operate, and could integrate human rights into development discourse
through a framework on the right to development established by the high-level task
force and endorsed by the Working Group;
(c)
Promoting an interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder process to adopt a
human rights-based approach to realizing the right to development, including the
institutional engineering of the complementary roles of the current human rights
mechanisms, eventually replacing the high-level task force with an ad hoc expert body;
(d)
Supporting the initiative of the Special Rapporteur on the right to
development to continue regional consultations on good practices in the practical
implementation of the right to development in order to identify a comprehensive set of
good practices.
65.
The OHCHR section responsible for development and the right to development
should be strengthened in terms of personnel and financial and other resources.
66.
A feasibility study should be carried out regarding the establishment of a
research and implementation body (such as a development fund for human rights)
within the United Nations system, in particular within OHCHR, that would be
responsible for studying and implementing the contribution of development to the full
enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms. The Human Rights
Council could consider the possibility of widening the responsibilities of the Working
Group on the Right to Development and the Special Rapporteur on the right to
development, to include:
(a)
Providing basic information on the development and enjoyment of
human rights in all countries to United Nations bodies, especially in the field of human
rights;
(b)
Providing national development data and data on human rights as
relevant background material for consideration by human rights special procedures
when dealing with human rights issues;
(c)
Providing project support for national development and the promotion
of human rights;
(d)
Conducting development and capacity-building projects in the field of
human rights in various countries;
(e)
Establishing regular contact with various United Nations specialized
development agencies and setting up an information-sharing platform.
67.
A seminar should be held on development and the promotion of human rights,
and attention should continue to be paid to the topic at the academic level.
68.
The Human Rights Council should instruct the Advisory Committee to
continue its relevant research on the basis of the present report and invite States to
establish guidance on the activities of the United Nations and Governments relating to
the contribution of development to the enjoyment of human rights, taking into
consideration the following: activities and viewpoints expressed by the international
community, including in commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights; attitudes of countries towards the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments; and
periodic progress made in relation to the 2030 Agenda.
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