A/HRC/30/22
I.
Introduction
1.
In its resolution 48/141 establishing the post of United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights, the General Assembly directed the High Commissioner to promote and
protect the realization of the right to development and to enhance support from relevant
bodies of the United Nations system for this purpose. It also directed the High
Commissioner to recognize the importance of promoting a balanced and sustainable
development for all people and of ensuring the realization of the right to development, as
established in the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development.
2.
The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 27/2, requested the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to continue to submit to the
Human Rights Council an annual report on its activities, including on inter-agency
coordination within the United Nations system with regard to the promotion and realization
of the right to development.
3.
In its resolution 69/181, the General Assembly reaffirmed the request to the High
Commissioner for Human Rights, in mainstreaming the right to development, to effectively
undertake activities aimed at strengthening the global partnership for development among
Member States, development agencies and the international development, financial and
trade institutions, and to reflect those activities in detail in his next report to the Human
Rights Council.
4.
In the same resolution, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to
submit a report to the General Assembly at its seventieth session and an interim report to
the Human Rights Council on the implementation of that resolution, including efforts
undertaken at the national, regional and international levels in the promotion and realization
of the right to development.
5.
The present report is submitted in accordance with the above requests and provides
information on the activities undertaken by OHCHR and the United Nations human rights
mechanisms between May 2014 and April 2015.
II. Activities of the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights
6.
The operational framework for promoting and protecting the realization of the right
to development is contained in the Secretary-General’s strategic framework for the period
2014–2015 and the OHCHR Management Plan for the period 2014–2017.1
7.
During the period under review, OHCHR has conducted numerous activities, a full
account of which is available on the OHCHR website, including the web page dedicated to
the right to development.2
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For details, see the report of the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner on the right to
development (A/HRC/27/27, paras. 6–13).
See www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Development/Pages/DevelopmentIndex.aspx.
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