A/HRC/27/27
12.
The above strategy is further reflected in the OHCHR Management Plan for the
period 2014-2017, in which the right to development is part of the thematic priority
“Human rights in development and in the economic sphere”.
13.
As part of the thematic strategy of the Management Plan, OHCHR seeks:
(a)
To integrate human rights into the formulation of and follow-up to the post2015 development agenda by, inter alia, advocating for a strengthened global partnership
for development, and the individual and collective human rights responsibilities of States
and other relevant actors, including with regard to the right to development;
(b)
To integrate international human rights principles and standards, including
the right to development, into finance, trade and investment policies, which requires the
mainstreaming of the right to development into global partnerships between Member
States, national development agencies, and businesses, and international development,
financial and trade institutions;
(c)
To integrate human rights standards and principles into common country
assessments, United Nations development assistance frameworks, consolidated appeal
processes and the work of United Nations agencies, which involves working to bring all
human rights principles and standards, including the right to development, into United
Nations policies guidelines and training tools related to development programming, through
inputs to the work of all relevant inter-agency coordination mechanisms.
III. Activities of the Office of the High Commissioner
14.
OHCHR has conducted many activities and initiatives, a full account of which is
available on the OHCHR webpage dedicated to the right to development
(www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Development/Pages/DevelopmentIndex.aspx).
A.
Publications
15.
With a view to advancing a broader understanding of the right to development, the
Office completed its publication entitled Realizing the Right to Development: Essays in
Commemoration of 25 Years of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to
Development. The publication focuses on the sustained, progressive and incremental steps
necessary to protect and promote the realization of the right to development. The book
presents a wide range of in-depth analytical studies by more than 30 international experts
on the context, meaning and application of the right to development. It illustrates the
usefulness of this right as a development paradigm, including in the post-2015 development
agenda, and makes the case for reinvigorating it to advance peace and security, human
rights and sustainable development. In particular, the forward by the High Commissioner
sets out a basic understanding of the right to development.
16.
Article 1 of the Declaration on the Right to Development states that the specific
entitlement of the right to development is the right “to participate in, contribute to, and
enjoy economic, social, cultural and political development”. This basic entitlement includes
a number of constituent elements, inter alia:
(a)
People-centred development: the Declaration identifies “the human person”
as the central subject, participant and beneficiary of development;
(b)
A human rights-based approach: the Declaration specifically requires that
development be carried out in a manner “in which all human rights and fundamental
freedoms can be fully realized”;
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