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human rights obligations. That was especially relevant in the context of State-driven
processes at the United Nations, including the negotiations on the post-2015 development
agenda.
42.
In her report to the twenty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council, the Special
Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
(A/HRC/27/53), outlined the priorities on which she intended to focus during her tenure.
Among them, she identified the structural and systemic causes of poverty and inequality,
which rendered the poor and marginalized most vulnerable to slavery and labour
exploitation.
IV. Conclusions and recommendations
43.
United Nations human rights mechanisms are paying increasing attention to
issues at the core of the right to development.
44.
During the reporting period, relevant work undertaken by OHCHR and the
United Nations human rights mechanisms, including special rapporteurs and treaty
bodies, centred principally on the post-2015 development agenda, the 2015 United
Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held in Paris, the Third International
Conference on Financing for Development Conference, to be held in Addis Ababa,
and the functioning of international financial institutions.
45.
Consideration should be given to identifying possible synergies between the
processes established to monitor progress and accountability in the implementation of
the sustainable development goals and targets and in the progressive realization of the
right to development. In that regard, it would be important for the Working Group on
the Right to Development to consider coherence and consistency between the
sustainable development goals and targets and the Declaration on the Right to
Development.
46.
The continued political impasse within the Working Group on the Right to
Development represents an obstacle to the work of the United Nations in making
progress on the right to development.
47.
In 2016, the international community will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the
United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development, at the same time as it
embarks on the implementation of the new sustainable development goals. This is an
opportunity to evaluate the progress made to date in the realization of the right to
development, to identify obstacles and consider avenues for enhancing the
effectiveness and efficiency of processes and efforts aimed at ensuring the effective
enjoyment of the right to development by all people, everywhere.
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