A/HRC/27/45 I. Introduction 1. The open-ended Working Group on the Right to Development was established pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1998/72, endorsed by the Economic and Social Council in its decision 1998/269, initially for a period of three years, to meet for a period of five working days each year, with a mandate to monitor and review progress made in the promotion and implementation of the right to development, as elaborated in the Declaration on the Right to Development, at the national and international levels, providing recommendations thereon and further analysing obstacles to its full enjoyment, focusing each year on specific commitments in the Declaration; to review reports and any other information submitted by States, United Nations agencies, other relevant international organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the relationship between their activities and the right to development; and to present for the consideration of the Commission on Human Rights a sessional report on its deliberations, including advice to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) with regard to the implementation of the right to development, and suggesting possible programmes of technical assistance at the request of interested countries with the aim of promoting the implementation of the right to development. The Commission also decided that an independent expert should be appointed by its Chairman, initially for a period of three years, with a mandate to present to the Working Group at each of its sessions a study on the current state of progress in the implementation of the right to development, taking into account, inter alia, the deliberations and suggestions of the Working Group. 2. In its resolution 2000/5, the Commission on Human Rights welcomed the consensus reached between all parties on the need for the Working Group to convene in two sessions, of five days each, before the fifty-seventh session of the Commission. 3. In view of the urgent need to make further progress towards the realization of the right to development as elaborated in the Declaration on the Right to Development, the Commission, in its resolution 2001/9, decided to extend the mandate of the Working Group for one year and the mandate of the independent expert for three years. 4. In resolution 2002/69, the Commission on Human Rights emphasized the international economic and financial issues that deserved particular attention by the Working Group, and decided to extend its mandate by one year to continue important deliberations and deepening dialogue on the operationalization of the right to development. 5. In resolution 2003/83, the Commission on Human Rights decided to renew the mandate of the Working Group for one year and to convene it, for a period of 10 working days, to consider the report of the independent expert on the right to development as well as the outcome of a two-day high-level seminar on effective strategies for mainstreaming the right to development in the policies and operational activities of the major international organizations/institutions, to be organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights within the 10 working days allocated to the Working Group. 6. In resolution 2004/7, the Commission decided to renew the mandate of the Working Group for one year, to meet for 10 working days. It also endorsed the recommendation of the Working Group at its fifth session to establish, for an initial period of one year, a highlevel task force on the implementation of the right to development, within the framework of the Working Group and in accordance with the terms of reference defined by it, to assist it in fulfilling its mandate as contained in paragraph 10 (a) of Commission resolution 1998/72, and to allocate to the task force 5 of the 10 working days allocated to the Working Group. 3