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on inter-agency coordination within the United Nations system that has direct relevance to
the realization of the right to development, and to provide an analysis, taking into account
existing challenges to the realization of the right to development, and to make
recommendations on how to overcome them and concrete proposals for supporting the
Working Group on the Right to Development in fulfilling its mandate;
4.
Urges the High Commissioner to pursue her efforts, in fulfilment of her
mandated responsibility, to enhance support for the promotion and protection of the
realization of the right to development, taking as reference the Declaration on the Right to
Development, all resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights
and the Human Rights Council on the right to development, and agreed conclusions and
recommendations of the Working Group on the Right to Development;
5.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner, in the implementation of the
Declaration on the Right to Development, to take sufficient measures to ensure balanced and
visible allocation of resources and due attention to ensure the visibility of the right to
development by identifying and implementing tangible projects dedicated to the right to
development, in collaboration with the Special Rapporteur on the right to development, and
to provide regular updates to the Human Rights Council in this regard;
6.
Recognizes the need for renewed efforts towards intensifying deliberations in
the Working Group on the Right to Development to fulfil, at the earliest, its mandate as
established by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1998/72 and the Human
Rights Council in its resolution 4/4;
7.
Acknowledges the need to strive for greater acceptance, operationalization and
realization of the right to development at the international level while urging all States to
undertake at the national level the necessary policy formulation and to institute the measures
required for the implementation of the right to development as an integral part of all human
rights and fundamental freedoms;
8.
Welcomes all celebrations held to commemorate the anniversary of the
Declaration on the Right to Development, particularly the celebrations held to commemorate
its thirtieth anniversary in 2016, which included the annual high-level panel discussion on
human rights mainstreaming, with the theme “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development and human rights, with an emphasis on the right to development”, convened at
the thirty-first session of the Human Rights Council, the panel discussion on the promotion
and protection of the right to development, convened at the thirty-second session of the
Council, and the high-level segment of the General Assembly to commemorate the thirtieth
anniversary of the Declaration, held at the seventy-first session of the Assembly, which
provided a unique opportunity to Member States to demonstrate and reiterate their political
commitment, accord the right to development the great attention it deserves, and to redouble
their efforts towards the realization of the right to development;
9.
Also welcomes the report of the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on
the Right to Development on its twentieth session; 5
10.
Stresses the importance of the core principles contained in the conclusions of
the Working Group on the Right to Development at its third session 6 that are congruent with
the purpose of international human rights instruments, such as equality, non-discrimination,
accountability, participation and international cooperation, as critical to mainstreaming the
right to development at the national and international levels, and underlines the importance
of the principles of equity and transparency;
11.
Also stresses the importance of the realization of the mandate of the Working
Group on the Right to Development, and recognizes the need for renewed efforts with a view
to overcoming the existing political impasse within the Working Group and to fulfil at the
earliest its mandate as established by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution
1998/72 and the Human Rights Council in its resolutions 4/4 and 39/9;
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6
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A/HRC/42/35 and Corr.1.
See E/CN.4/2002/28/Rev.1.
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