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programme of work of the Office. OHCHR continued to play a leading and instrumental
role in coordinating and supporting United Nations inter-agency initiatives on
mainstreaming all human rights, including the right to development, in United Nations
policies and operational programmes. Specifically, the Deputy High Commissioner led and
co-chaired the United Nations Development Group human rights mainstreaming
mechanism. The mechanism was established in 2009 at the request of the Secretary-General
to institutionalize the mainstreaming of human rights in United Nations development work,
including through policy and operational coherence, leadership, capacity-building at the
national level, and strengthening advocacy and knowledge platforms. It served as an
important senior-level policy forum at which to discuss critical policy issues on human
rights and provided strong operational support to the work of resident coordinators and
United Nations country teams, supported by the Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office of the
United Nations Development Programme.
26.
OHCHR has been working to integrate all human rights, including the right to
development, into the post-2015 development agenda as well as into the two other main
international development processes of 2015, namely the Third International Conference on
Financing for Development, to be held in Addis Ababa in July, and the United Nations
Climate Change Conference, to be held in Paris in December.
27.
In September, United Nations leaders will gather in New York for a summit to adopt
the post-2015 development agenda. Encouragingly, the sustainable development goals
proposed by the Open Working Group of the General Assembly on Sustainable
Development Goals reflect the substantive content of several human rights obligations,
including the right to development. The draft text of the solemn declaration, which is to
precede these goals and targets, makes it amply clear that the post-2015 development
agenda is to be guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
and grounded in international human rights standards, including the right to development.
28.
In March 2015, the United Nations Statistical Commission presented preliminary
global indicators for the sustainable development goals and targets. From a human rights
perspective, these indicators should be transformative and capture the priorities of a peoplecentred development agenda. They should measure who is left behind. Data disaggregation
will therefore be a fundamental tool to reveal inequalities and deprivation across all
sustainable development goals and targets. Indicators that measure the extent to which an
enabling national and international legal and policy environment is present to promote and
protect all human rights, including the right to development, should be indispensable
components of the post-2015 framework.
29.
Adopting a financing framework that lives up to the ambition of the post-2015
development agenda is of paramount importance. The underlying thread should be article 2
of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which enshrines the
commitment to mobilize maximum available resources, including through international
cooperation, for the progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights.
However, the issue is not just effective resource mobilization; it is also about resource
allocation and distribution in the spirit of solidarity between countries and towards the
poorest and most vulnerable in all societies. This duty is echoed in the Declaration on the
Right to Development, in particular in articles 4 (2) and 2 (3), according to which effective
international cooperation is essential for the realization of the right to development in
providing developing countries with appropriate means and facilities to foster their
comprehensive development, as is the fair distribution of the benefits resulting from
development nationally.
30.
In this regard, OHCHR has emphasized several important human rights
considerations: access to financial services and resources should be provided without
discrimination; foreign direct investment should not undermine human rights; business
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