A/HRC/15/24 I. Introduction 1. In its resolution 64/172, the General Assembly reaffirmed its “request to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in mainstreaming the right to development, to undertake effectively activities aimed at strengthening the global partnership for development between Member States, development agencies and the international development, financial and trade institutions, and to reflect those activities in detail in her next report to the Human Rights Council” (para. 37). The General Assembly also requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to it at its sixty-fifth session as well as an interim report to the Human Rights Council on the implementation of resolution 64/172, including efforts undertaken at the national, regional and international levels in the promotion and realization of the right to development (para. 40). 2. The present report is submitted in accordance with the above-mentioned requests and, as per the established practice, represents a consolidated report of the SecretaryGeneral and the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to development. II. Activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights relating to the promotion and realization of the right to development 3. In its resolution 48/141, in which it established the mandate of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the General Assembly explicitly requested the High Commissioner “to promote and protect the realization of the right to development and to enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations system for this purpose” (para. 4 (c)). The right to development accordingly continues to be a priority of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). 4. The OHCHR programme on the promotion and realization of the right to development is set out in programme 19 of the Strategic framework for the period 201020111 and guided by a multidimensional strategy in accordance with the Declaration on the Right to Development (1986), the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (1993), the Millennium Declaration and other relevant instruments, as well as by mandates of the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council. The implementation of this policy framework is undertaken through the High Commissioner’s Strategic Management Plan, which integrates the right to development as a cross-cutting theme in the work of the Office. 5. Consequently, OHCHR activities are aimed at ensuring the realization of the right to development across the human rights programme and by the relevant bodies of the United Nations system; enhancing substantive support to the Human Rights Council and its subsidiary mechanisms related to the right to development; building stronger partnership and collaboration with relevant actors, including Member States, multilateral institutions, civil society and non-governmental organizations as well as the private sector; encouraging the promotion and protection of the right to development in global development partnerships, as reflected in Millennium Development Goal 8, through advocacy, networking, technical advice and the establishment of partnerships; identifying obstacles to the implementation of the right to development at the international, regional and national levels; and promoting awareness about the content and importance of the right to 1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 6 (A/63/6/Rev.1). 3