A/HRC/33/31 23. The Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights delivered remarks at the African Group side event on the right to development. She highlighted the importance of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change for the realization of the right to development. She also underlined the need to combat inequality within and among countries so as to leave no one behind, starting first, wherever possible, with those furthest behind. She stated that persistent poverty and deepening inequalities were major threats to human rights and development, and thus directly to peace and security. 21 24. OHCHR supported the intergovernmental processes leading to the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development, the 2030 Agenda, including the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change. OHCHR published the advocacy tool “Key messages on human rights and financing for development” (see annex I). The High Commissioner sent an open letter on human rights in the financing for development agenda 22 to States calling upon them to take specific measures to ensure an inclusive and participatory financing for development agenda that would benefit the most vulnerable, hold all parties and stakeholders accountable, and fulfil the human rights commitments to work together towards a better world. 25. OHCHR also organized a side event and delivered a statement on behalf of the High Commissioner to the plenary session of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development. In the statement, the High Commissioner underscored that financing for development must satisfy the demands of all persons to have their most basic needs met in a world that did not lack the means, but had failed to demonstrate the will, to make human rights a reality for all. He called upon States to ensure that their efforts to finance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development reflected the needs and demands of people, that they fully integrated relevant human rights commitments and encapsulated the imperative of human rights-based policy coherence.23 26. As a result of advocacy by OHCHR and others, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda contains numerous human rights considerations such as the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, reporting on environmental, social and governance impacts and the need for environmental and social safeguards in the context of activities by businesses and development banks. Members States agreed to promote financial inclusion, reduce inequalities, seek to eradicate extreme poverty, ensure gender equality and provide social protection and essential public services for all, with a focus on those furthest below the poverty line. Civil society organizations increasingly adopted a rights-based analysis to financing for development. 27. OHCHR advocated for the centrality of all human rights, including the right to development, in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and called for more equitable development, including at the global level. OHCHR has consistently emphasized that the 2030 Agenda is explicitly guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, including full respect for international law, grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights treaties and informed by other instruments, including the Declaration on the Right to Development. 24 OHCHR played an active role in the development of the Sustainable Development Goal indicators and 21 22 23 24 6 See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=17126&LangID=E. See letter at www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/MDGs/Post2015/20150617_HC_open_letter_ HR_FFD.pdf. See statement at www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16246. See General Assembly resolution 70/1, para. 10.