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meaningful participation.124 The voices and priorities of the least developed countries
and their peoples should be especially reflected in the Conference and its outcomes.
67.
OHCHR and other United Nations entities present in the least developed
countries should continue to raise awareness among the full range of stakeholders and
build local capacity towards making meaningful contributions to the Fifth Conference
with a view to promoting the right to development and transformative change.
68.
United Nations human rights mechanisms, including treaty bodies, special
procedure mandate holders, the universal periodic review and the Working Group on
the Right to Development, should consider the specific challenges faced by the least
developed countries and support their pursuit of human rights-centred sustainable
development in their work.
69.
The United Nations system should continue to support the least developed
countries in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as the goals and
targets of the new programme of action, based on the understanding that all human
rights, including the right to development, are universal, indivisible, interdependent
and interrelated. The right to development is a universal and inalienable right and an
integral part of fundamental human rights.125
70.
Development partners, Member States, the United Nations system,
international development, financial and trade institutions, the private sector and
foundations should consider the call made by the Group of Least Developed Countries
for a global stimulus package for the least developed countries to address the
burgeoning challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.126
71.
The least developed countries should better integrate the right to development
and other human rights into their national development plans and other programmes
and policies aimed at implementing the new programme of action, the 2030 Agenda,
the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework, the
New Urban Agenda and the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
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A/HRC/39/28.
General Assembly resolution 71/243, para. 15.
A/74/843.
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