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development, including through increased engagement, research, advocacy and
informational and educational activities.
A.
Mainstreaming the right to development
6.
OHCHR continued to advocate to Member States, United Nations agencies, funds
and programmes, regional mechanisms and institutions as well as other stakeholders, that
policy decisions and programming at the national, regional and international levels should
integrate the constitutive principles of the right to development: equality, equity, nondiscrimination, participation, transparency, accountability and international cooperation. In
this regard, OHCHR emphasized the importance and added value of the right to
development approach to discussions on fairer globalization, global governance, and human
rights mainstreaming, as well as in the relevant work of the United Nations system
including, for example, the High-Level Committee on Programmes of the United Nations
System Chief Executives Board for Coordination.
7.
OHCHR advocated that the multidimensional framework of the right to
development could shape policies and strategies to deal with the challenges of global
governance, especially global economic governance, in an increasingly interdependent
world faced with multiple global crises including climate change. OHCHR further
emphasized that the right to development can address the human rights implications of
globalization, by reinforcing the individual and collective responsibilities of States for the
creation of a national and international environment conducive to socially just development
and governance.
1.
Support to the United Nations human rights mechanisms
8.
OHCHR continued to provide substantive and organizational support to the openended Working Group on the Right to Development, established by the Commission on
Human Rights through its resolution 1998/72. The Working Group is mandated to monitor
and review progress made in the promotion and implementation of the right to
development, providing recommendations thereon and further analysing obstacles to its full
enjoyment. Considerable support was also provided by OHCHR to the high-level task force
on the implementation of the right to development, established by the Commission on
Human Rights through its resolution 2004/7 and mandated to provide expertise to the
Working Group with regard to the implementation of the right to development.
9.
The task force held its sixth session in January 2010 in Geneva. The session focused
on the implementation of the recommendations made by the Working Group at its tenth
session (A/HRC/12/28, paras. 44-46). The task force adopted conclusions and
recommendations, including on policy coherence and striking a balance between national
and international responsibilities for the right to development, on future work in thematic
areas of international cooperation, further action on the criteria, and on mainstreaming the
right to development. The report of the task force on its sixth session is contained in
documents A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2 and Corr.1, and its two addenda, on the consolidation of
findings and on the right to development criteria and operational sub-criteria, in documents
A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2/Add.1 and Corr.1 and document A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2/Add.2,
respectively.
10.
The Working Group held its eleventh session in April 2010 in Geneva and reviewed
the progress made in the implementation of the right to development by considering the
report of the task force mentioned above. In its recommendations submitted for
endorsement by the Human Rights Council at its meeting in September 2010, the Working
Group invited Member States as well as other stakeholders to share their views on the work
of the task force (A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2, Add.1 and Add.2) and on the way forward. It also
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