A/HRC/41/50 formulate and implement its own developmental strategies. The high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development supported the Working Group on the Right to Development from 2004–2010. In its report (A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2/Add.2), the task force concluded that, as implied in the Declaration on the Right to Development, States have three levels of responsibility in relation to the realization of that right: (a) Internal responsibilities, through the formulation of national development policies and programmes affecting persons within the States’ jurisdiction; (b) International responsibilities, through the adoption and implementation of policies affecting persons beyond the States’ jurisdiction; (c) Collective responsibilities, through global and regional partnerships. 13. The right to development is a union of individual and collective human rights. A balance has to be kept between both, and the two must be mutually promoted. Only through individual development can a collective develop; only in a collective can individuals achieve well-rounded development. The right to development is a human right owned by each individual and by countries, nations and the entire international community. Therefore, the right to development must be enjoyed and shared by all peoples. It requires Governments of all countries to formulate development strategies and policies suited to their own realities, and it requires concerted efforts of the international community as a whole. 14. Equal access to development opportunities and benefits are human society ideals wherein every citizen can achieve well-rounded development and fully enjoy the right to development. Human beings hold the principal position concerning the realization of the right to development. Governments should value the people’s supremacy and regard people as the fundamental driver of development; Governments should strive for, rely on and share among their citizens. 15. The right to development includes the right to education, a very important social and economic right. Education enables people to acquire skills that help to ensure access to employment, a good standard of living, health services, housing, and the possibility of gaining further knowledge for progressing in life. Education not only brings material benefits, but enables citizens to broaden their minds, make informed choices about good governance and choose a way of life that promotes the enjoyment of all civil and political rights while respecting the usual limits on freedom in terms of the rights of others and public interest in general. The right to development therefore opens the door to a life of freedom and dignity. 16. Poverty is a major obstacle to human rights. Without the production and supply of material goods, it is difficult or even impossible to realize any other human right. Development is a means of eliminating poverty. It provides the conditions necessary for realizing all other human rights and releases human potential. The right to development is incorporated into other human rights, and other human rights create the conditions to facilitate development and realize the right to development. Safeguarding the right to development is ultimately important for realizing economic, cultural, social and environmental rights, and obtaining civil and political rights. 17. However, the ambition of developing countries to adopt a legally binding convention for the international protection of the right to development has faced opposition and resistance from other States. This cleavage has caused political and ideological polarization and tension, explaining the failure to achieve universal support for strengthening the legal grounds for and common interpretation of the right to development. 6 There is a wide consensus that, if fully implemented, the Declaration on the Right to Development has the potential, together with the other international human rights instruments, to lead to the achievement of social justice and lasting peace in the world, by 6 See Flavia Piovesan, “The right to development: promoting and protecting a human right in the contemporary context”, available at https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Development/ Session18/FlaviaPiovesan.pdf. 5