A/HRC/42/29
IV. Conclusions and recommendations
Finance
64.
Member States and other relevant stakeholders should:
(a)
Enhance international cooperation with a view to building and
strengthening fair, transparent, efficient and effective tax systems in developing
countries that support the realization of all human rights, including the right to
development;
(b)
Intensify and deepen their cooperation in addressing illicit financial
flows and take steps to address tax evasion;
(c)
Continue and strengthen efforts to meet their respective official
development assistance commitments and take more ambitious steps to reach the
targets set in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, including in providing enhanced
support to least developed countries;
(d)
Collect and disaggregate data on the allocation of official development
assistance insofar as such assistance benefits rights holders and contributes to the
measurable improvement of the enjoyment and realization of the right to development
and other human rights;
(e)
Work towards a fair sharing of the benefits of foreign direct investment
that helps advance, rather than undermines, the realization of all human rights,
including the right to development;
(f)
Continue to strengthen mechanisms for South-South cooperation, both
financial and non-financial, in a manner conducive to the realization of the right to
development, recognizing that South-South cooperation should not be considered a
substitute for, but a complement to, North-South cooperation;
(g)
Remove obstacles to remittances, including obstacles relating to
indiscriminate unilateral coercive measures;
(h)
Encourage and support creditors and debtors in recalibrating their
analytical tools and improving debt management in order to address the rising debt
burden of countries and related debt vulnerabilities, taking into account their
respective human rights obligations.
Technology
65.
Member States and other relevant stakeholders should:
(a)
Promote initiatives to bridge technology gaps and address digital divides,
and ensure the fair distribution of benefits for all from technological development;
(b)
Disseminate further environmentally sound technologies, especially to
countries lagging most behind, such as least developed countries, landlocked
developing countries and small island developing States;
(c)
Continue and enhance cooperation with initiatives that promote
technology transfer, especially to least developed countries.
Capacity-building
66.
Member States and other relevant stakeholders should:
(a)
Provide continued and increased technical and financial support to
enhance capacity to implement national sustainable development strategies in
contribution to the realization of all human rights, including the right to development;
(b)
Enhance the provision to developing countries of capacity-building
support for data collection, data disaggregation and other statistical capacity in a
manner that enables them to effectively collect, analyse and interpret relevant
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