A/HRC/24/27 12. OHCHR plans to launch in 2013 a publication entitled, Realizing the Right to Development: Essays in commemoration of 25 years of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development. This publication presents for the first time a wide range of indepth analytical studies by more than 30 international experts covering the context, meaning and application of this right and its potential to shape human rights and development policy and practice. Together the experts support the concept of an enabling environment for development that would ensure freedom from want and freedom from fear for all people. The contributions to this publication illustrate the far-reaching potential of the right to development and its relevance more than 25 years after the adoption of the Declaration. They make the case for reinvigorating attention given to this right in order to realize its added value to advancing human rights, development and peace and security in an increasingly interdependent, fragile and changing world, including in the post-2015 agenda for sustainable development. B. Events and initiatives 1. Support to relevant Human Rights Council mandate mechanisms 13. In April 2013, OHCHR provided Secretariat support in the organization of the informal intersessional meeting of the Working Group on the Right to Development and of the fourteenth annual session of the Working Group which took place from 13 to 17 May 2013. At this session, the Working Group completed the first reading of the draft right to development operational sub-criteria under attribute 1. The Working Group recommended, inter alia, continuing, at its fifteenth session, its work on the consideration of the draft operational sub-criteria with the first reading of the remaining operational sub-criteria. 14. The opening statement of the High Commissioner recalled the importance that the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action placed on the right to development. It highlighted a number of fundamental challenges confronting the world: climate change, environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity impacted heavily on the human rights of present and future generations; rising inequalities still left vast numbers of people in abject poverty; demographic changes and the changing contours of geopolitical and economic relations, as well as multiple crises, placed new demands on governance at all levels and called for coherent and human rights-based policies. The Declaration on the Right to Development enshrined a comprehensive, human-centred development paradigm that aimed at the improvement of human well-being for all. It recognized that every human person was entitled to participate in, contribute to and enjoy a development process in which all human rights could be fully realized.1 15. From 1 to 3 October 2012, OHCHR organized the Social Forum of the Human Rights Council, which focused on people-centred development and globalization. Over the course of the Forum more than 35 experts and individuals participated in nine panel discussions and one round-table discussion which covered issues such as sustainable development, financing for development, social movements, women’s rights, democratic governance and participatory development. In a video message, Tawakkol Karman, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, called on people to “make globalization into a positive phenomenon that could benefit all people” and stated that “there is no peace without justice and development”. The official proceedings of the Social Forum were supplemented by a full programme of side events which addressed such themes as youth advocacy, the solidarity economy and the participation of older persons in society. Discussions 1 For the full text of the High Commissioner’s statement, see http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13320&LangID=E. 5