A/HRC/41/50 association; and international assistance and cooperation. The right to development, as reaffirmed at the World Conference on Human Rights in 1993, is aimed at addressing human needs and is an integral part of all human rights. International human rights standards, including the principles of non-discrimination, participation, accountability and transparency, are contained in human rights instruments and can be used to monitor progress towards the realization of the right to development by means of appropriate indicators, including those under consideration by the Working Group on the Right to Development. 5. The promotion, protection and fulfilment of the right to development should be continued in the context of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change. The adoption of these instruments has given a new impetus to the implementation of the right to development. 6. The high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development underlined the importance of implementing the right to development by contributing to the mainstreaming of that right into development programmes. All Governments are invited to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur on the right to development and other special procedures in the performance of their mandated tasks and duties. The Special Rapporteur, working closely with the Working Group on the Right to Development, will surely provide new momentum to the discussions by injecting essential expertise into the implementation and realization of the right to development. As the mandate of the Special Rapporteur was established fairly recently, the mandate holder has not yet identified a comprehensive set of good practices. However, in its resolution 36/9, the Human Rights Council mandated the Special Rapporteur to conduct a series of regional consultations on the implementation of the right to development, with the aim of formulating general guidelines for implementing policies and programmes to promote and fulfil the right to development. The consultation for the Africa region was held in Addis Ababa in March 2018. 1 7. All human rights bodies, United Nations agencies and stakeholders have a duty to make a concerted effort to promote a development-informed and interdependence-based interpretation of all human rights instruments, so as to highlight and emphasize the relevance and importance of the right to development in interpreting and applying the provisions of those instruments and in monitoring compliance with them. In that way, the realization of the right to development will be promoted by ensuring that the necessary conditions are in place for achieving economic and social progress and development for all, including vulnerable individuals. 8. The vulnerabilities of persons living in developing countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small island developing States, countries in conflict and post-conflict situations, and fragile States justify particular action. Poverty can breed conflict, and too many individuals are locked in cycles of meaningless violence, too many lives are being lost, far too much money is spent on military might, and far too little on fulfilling human rights. 2 9. In addition to the global multilateral approach adopted by the Human Rights Council since its establishment in 2006 to follow and analyse the promotion and realization of the right to development, regional activities should be taken into account, in particular the human rights mechanisms in Africa, America, the Middle East and South-East Asia, and those associated with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. It is also important to consider interregional activities, for example, South-South cooperation. 1 2 See www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Development/SRDevelopment/Pages/RegionalConsultation Presentations.aspx. Closing statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, available at https://newsarchive.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=11583 &LangID=E. 3