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permanent jobs, support for small farmers, unemployment insurance, universal public
health, the right to adequate housing for all and productive and industrial development as
decisive factors to eradicate hunger, poverty and social exclusion. In the Declaration, they
reiterated their commitment to the eradication of child labour at the earliest possible date.
51.
The CELAC countries recognized that indigenous peoples and local communities
play a significant role in economic, social and environmental development and also
recognized the valuable contributions of the private sector, civil society, social movements
and society as a whole. They pledged to continue consolidating sound regional concepts
acknowledging the rights of migrants, and to increase coordination on regional policies on
migration and common positions in global and interregional negotiations on migration,
especially regarding the promotion of the global debate on the link between migration,
development and human rights.
52.
The Declaration stressed the crucial importance of the intergovernmental process for
formulating the post-2015 development agenda, which should be open, transparent and
inclusive. It emphasized that the new development agenda should be formulated on the
basis of full respect for the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and in
the light of the principles enshrined in the final document adopted at Rio+20, entitled “The
Future We Want”.
IV.
Constructing the draft declaration on the right of peoples and
individuals to international solidarity
53.
The Independent Expert, mindful of word limit guidelines, provides a brief outline
of the process leading to the proposed draft declaration, which is contained in the annex to
the present report. References to full reports and further details relating to the process are
provided in the footnotes of the present report.
A.
Background
54.
The groundwork for the development of a right to international solidarity began with
the submission of a working paper on human rights and international solidarity by Rui
Baltazar Dos Santos Alves (E/CN.4/Sub.2/2004/43) to the Sub-Commission on the
Promotion and Protection of Human Rights of the Commission on Human Rights, as
requested in its resolution 2002/73. One of the conclusions of the working paper was that
international solidarity as an instrument for the attainment of human rights was a fact of
international life that needed new development. In paragraph 37 (c), Mr. Baltazar proposed
a preliminary workplan, in which he recommended “studying the new international context,
the new challenges and the need to define principles, objectives and priorities conducive to
clarifying responsibilities in the field of international solidarity and human rights”.
55.
Subsequently, during its sixty-first session, the Commission on Human Rights, in its
resolution 2005/55, established the mandate on human rights and international solidarity,
decided to appoint an independent expert on human rights and international solidarity for a
period of three years and requested the independent expert to study the issue and prepare a
draft declaration on the right. Rudi Muhammad Rizki was appointed as the first
independent expert on human rights and international solidarity.
56.
In his first report (E/CN.4/2006/96), Mr. Rizki presented an overview of his
approach to the mandate, including objectives, methodology, preliminary considerations to
be refined and developed in subsequent reports and possible main areas of focus. Mr. Rizki
was appointed for a further three years after his first term. During his second term, he
circulated a questionnaire on human rights and international solidarity to States, United
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