A/HRC/RES/28/11 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 7 April 2015 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-eighth session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council 28/11. Human rights and the environment The Human Rights Council, Reaffirming its resolutions 16/11 of 24 March 2011, 19/10 of 22 March 2012 and 25/21 of 28 March 2014 on human rights and the environment, and relevant resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights, Bearing in mind General Assembly resolutions 60/251 of 15 March 2006 and 65/281 of 17 June 2011, and Human Rights Council resolution 16/21 of 25 March 2011, Recalling its resolutions 5/1 on institution-building of the Human Rights Council, and 5/2 on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his or her duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto, Recalling also the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, and its outcome document, “The future we want”, which reaffirmed the principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, including principle 7, and aiming to contribute to follow-up processes, including the realization of sustainable development goals, Recognizing that human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development, that the right to development must be fulfilled in order to meet the development and environmental needs of present and future generations equitably, and that the human person is the central subject of development and should be an active participant in and the beneficiary of the right to development, Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, Recognizing that sustainable development and the protection of the environment can contribute to human well-being and to the enjoyment of human rights, GE.15-07178 (E) 