A/HRC/4/123
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1.
Requests the Coordinating Committee of the special procedures to extend until
the closure of the fifth session of the Human Rights Council, which will be held from
11 to 18 June 2007, the deadline for the submission of comments on and inputs to the draft
manual of special procedures;
2.
Also requests the Working Group to present to the fifth session of the Council the
outcome of its deliberations on the code of conduct regulating the work of the special
procedures.
26th meeting
27 March 2007
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. III.]
4/4. The right to development
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling its resolution 1/4 of 30 June 2006, and recalling also all Commission on Human
Rights and General Assembly resolutions on the right to development, in particular the urgent
need to make the right to development a reality for everyone,
Recalling the Charter of the United Nations, and the core human rights instruments,
Taking note of the efforts under way in the framework of the Working Group on the Right
to Development with the support of the high-level task force on the implementation of the right
to development to develop a set of criteria for the periodic evaluation of global partnerships as
identified in Millennium Development Goal 8,
1.
Welcomes the report of the eighth session of the Working Group on the Right to
Development (A/HRC/4/47);
2.
Decides:
(a) To act to ensure that its agenda promotes and advances sustainable development and
the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and, in this regard, to agree on a
programme of work that will lead to raising the right to development, as set out in paragraphs 5
and 10 of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, to the same level and on a par with
all other human rights and fundamental freedoms;
(b) To endorse the road map outlined in paragraphs 52 to 54 of the report of the
eighth session of the Working Group on the Right to Development, which would ensure that
the criteria for the periodic evaluation of global partnerships, as identified in Millennium
Development Goal 8, prepared by the high-level task force and being progressively developed
and refined by the Working Group, is extended to other components of Millennium
Development Goal 8, by no later than 2009;
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