A/HRC/45/40 to the elimination of poverty.8 They also put in place eight time-bound targets with a 2015 deadline, which became known as the Millennium Development Goals. 14. At the thirteenth NAM Summit, held in Kuala Lumpur in 2003, States resolved that the Working Group on the Right to Development should continue to give priority to the operationalization of that important right, including the elaboration of a Convention on the Right to Development.9 Subsequent NAM summits have repeated such a call. 15. At the regional level, article 19 of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, adopted in 2003, specifically acknowledged that women are entitled to fully enjoy their right to sustainable development. It also includes measures that States parties need to take in that connection. 16. Article 37 of the Arab Charter on Human Rights of 2004, adopted by the Council of the League of Arab States, describes the right to development as a fundamental human right. In the same article, it is also stipulated that all States establish development policies and take measures needed to guarantee that right. States must also give effect to the values of solidarity and cooperation among them and at the international level, with a view to eradicating poverty and achieving economic, social, cultural and political development. Article 37 also specifies that by virtue of this right, every citizen has the right to participate in the realization of development and to enjoy the benefits and fruits thereof. 17. In September 2005, the Heads of State and Government assembled at the United Nations in New York for the 2005 World Summit. In the summit outcome document, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 60/1, Heads of State and Government unanimously resolved to strengthen the United Nations human rights machinery with the aim of ensuring effective enjoyment by all of all human rights and civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development. 18. In 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted, in which it was specified that indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for exercising their right to development (art. 23). 10 19. In its resolution 48/141, the General Assembly decided to create the post of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which explicitly included a mandate to promote and protect the realization of the right to development and to enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations system for that purpose. The Assembly and the Human Rights Council have also consistently highlighted the right to development and have requested the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide an annual progress report on its implementation. 20. During 2015, several important multilateral documents that reaffirmed the right to development were adopted by consensus, including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030; the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development; the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; and the Paris Agreement. These documents imparted fresh momentum to efforts aimed at fulfilling the right to development at national and international levels. 21. In 2016, the Human Rights Council adopted its resolution 33/14, in which it decided to appoint a Special Rapporteur on the right to development, whose mandate included contributing to the promotion, protection and fulfilment of the right to development. 22. In 2018, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas was adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 73/165. Article 3 (2) of the Declaration provides that peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies to exercise their right to development. 23. In 2019, the Council adopted its resolution 42/23, in which it established a subsidiary expert mechanism of five independent experts to provide it with thematic 8 9 10 General Assembly resolution 55/2. A/57/759-S/2003/332, para. 345. General Assembly resolution 61/295, annex. 5