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for example, pledges to leave no one behind and to focus on those furthest behind first.
Two goals are dedicated to equality, with commitments to end discrimination against and
exclusion of women and girls.
42.
The 2030 Agenda acknowledges that freedom from want and freedom from fear
need to be addressed together — echoing the emphasis placed by the right to development
on human well-being, the indivisibility of all human rights and the right of every member
of society to fully and freely participate in decision-making. The Declaration on the Right
to Development proclaims development to be a right that entitles everyone to active, free
and meaningful participation in development and to fair distribution of its benefits.
43.
States have the duty to cooperate with each other to eliminate obstacles to
development and to promote an economic order based on sovereign equality. The 2030
Agenda gives effect to this commitment through the specific implementation targets under
each Goal as well as through the partnership commitments under Goal 17.
44.
The Declaration addresses root causes, systemic issues and structural challenges in
its quest for a new order for development at all levels. It recognizes the need for an
enabling environment that is conducive to peace, human rights and socially and
ecologically sustainable development. Likewise, the 2030 Agenda acknowledges the need
to go far beyond the traditional development paradigm — which was focused on economic
development — and to replace it with a holistic, transformative vision, covering all three
dimensions of development: the economic, social and environmental.
45.
Together with the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, Sustainable Development Goal 17
provides momentum for the realization of the right to development. Goal 17 targets
announce commitments with regard to the mobilization of requisite financial resources;
cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and knowledge sharing;
enhancing international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building
in developing countries; and promoting a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory
and equitable multilateral trading system.
46.
The 2030 Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda also recognize the positive
contribution and role of the private sector in development, while underscoring the need to
protect labour rights and environmental and health standards in accordance with relevant
international standards, agreements and other initiatives, such as the Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and
remedy” Framework.36
47.
There are also differences between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
and the Declaration on the Right to Development. Most importantly, the right to
development is a human right. Expressed as an entitlement, development goes beyond
volunteerism and charity; it is a right with corresponding obligations and duties. The
Sustainable Development Goals, on the contrary, are an international development policy
and a political commitment. The implementation of the Goals contributes to the realization
of the right to development.
48.
The Working Group on the Right to Development discussed the 2030 Agenda in the
context of the right to development. Two of its recommendations are particularly relevant
to this topic. It recommended that, in its future deliberations, the Working Group should
study the contributions of States to the implementation of the right to development, at the
national, regional and international levels, in keeping with the mechanisms relating to the
Sustainable Development Goals. It also recommended that OHCHR consider facilitating
the participation of experts in the eighteenth session of the Working Group to provide
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