A/HRC/21/28 beyond 2015, was important. She pointed out that the politicization, polarization and the impasse in the intergovernmental debate on the right to development had to end. A common objective should be to create a practical and operational framework for the implementation of the right to development so as to realize the potential of this right with open, sustained engagement, including through encouraging the participation and input of a wider constituency.14 25. While trade liberalization and negotiations around trade agreements are ongoing in the Pacific, the consideration of human rights in such processes and debates has been lacking. The draft guiding principles of human rights impact assessments of trade and investment agreements developed by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food 15 provide a new modality to support interested States with concrete technical assistance. This potentially not only brings human rights into the debate but can prevent any potential negative impact of trade agreements on the enjoyment of human rights. This is particularly important in the case of small island developing States. A number of States in the Pacific currently conducting trade-related negotiations are showing interest in human rights impact assessments as well. 26. In August 2011, OHCHR initiated a project on human rights impact assessments relating to general trade liberalization. The overall objectives of the project were to collect further information on and examples of possible areas of impact, and to advocate for the inclusion of human rights in country- and agreement-specific trade discussions. Jointly with the UNDP Pacific Centre, a more comprehensive project was developed for accession by Vanuatu to WTO. The project, which is ongoing, comprises research, mapping and the identification of areas of possible impact, as well as a planned in situ visit. 27. OHCHR continues its efforts to mainstream human rights, including the right to development, into the United Nations system, including through the United Nations Development Group human rights mainstreaming mechanism. The High-Level Committee on Programmes, at its twenty-third session, held in March 2012, agreed to include human rights policy coherence as a regular agenda item and to discuss relevant human rights themes, as and when required, and to integrate human rights more systematically into joint advocacy statements and system-wide messages of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination. 28. In June 2012, the High Commissioner addressed a letter to all heads of United Nations departments, bodies, funds and programmes, specialized agencies, as well as international financial and multilateral trading institutions, in an effort to identify opportunities or obstacles to the full mainstreaming of the right to development into the mandates, policies and operational programmes and activities of the respective organizations. III. Conclusions and recommendations 29. During the period under review, OHCHR continued its efforts to promote the right to development by means of research, analysis, public advocacy, technical cooperation, mainstreaming and the facilitation of international dialogue. Challenges remain in the realization of the right to development, in particular, the continued politicization and polarization in intergovernmental debates. There is a need to enlarge the constituencies in support of the right to development and to ensure human 14 15 8 See www.OHCHR.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=12120&LangID=e. A/HRC/19/59/Add.5.