A/HRC/27/27 I. Introduction 1. In its resolution 48/141, in which the General Assembly established the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the 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 realization of the right to development, as established in the Declaration on the Right to Development. 2. The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 24/4, requested the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to submit to the Council an annual report on its activities, including inter-agency coordination within the United Nations system with regard to the promotion and realization of the right to development. 3. In its resolution 68/158, the General Assembly requested the High Commissioner, in mainstreaming the right to development, to undertake effectively 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 her next report to the Human Rights Council. 4. Also in resolution 68/158, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Assembly for consideration at its sixty-ninth session, and an interim report to the Human Rights Council on the implementation of resolution 68/158, 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 the Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) and United Nations human rights mechanisms during the period from May 2013 to April 2014. II. Operational framework for promoting and protecting the realization of the right to development 6. In implementing its mandate to promote and protect the realization of the right to development, OHCHR is guided by the Declaration on the Right to Development, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, and relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council. 7. The Declaration on the Right to Development, in its article 1, states that the right to development is an inalienable human right by virtue of which every human person and all peoples are entitled to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political development, in which all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be fully realized. 8. The right to development is a human right on an equal footing with all other human rights. The recognition that every human person and all peoples are entitled to a development process in which all human rights can be realized fully is at the core of the human rights-based approach to development. 3