A/HRC/19/45 7. OHCHR prepared and launched a special webpage1 devoted to the anniversary, featuring the signature design, statements, feature stories, publicity materials, calendar of events and other documentation. The Office also prepared and published on its website and disseminated through the social network, including on Facebook and Twitter, 12 stories on the content and importance of the right to development. The Office produced and widely circulated, in all official languages of the United Nations, public information notes, booklets containing the text of the Declaration with relevant photos, and posters. 8. Jointly with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, OHCHR developed and launched an e-platform introducing the right to development. In addition, the Office commissioned the production of a video with anniversary messages on all aspects of the Declaration, which was widely circulated though social media, including YouTube, and shown at anniversary events around the globe. During the anniversary year, OHCHR prepared, contributed and/or delivered 17 oral and press statements and articles for senior officials on the right to development. In addition, OHCHR will release, in 2012, a factsheet on frequently asked questions about the right to development and a book containing the research work of some 30 international experts. B. Events and initiatives 9. OHCHR organized and supported some 20 major international events and many pioneering initiatives. The programme of commemoration of the anniversary began with an inaugural event organized jointly by the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation on 24 and 25 February, in Berlin. The High Commissioner delivered a statementat the event, which was entitled “Twenty-five years of the right to development: achievements and challenges”. 2 An expert symposium, which was part of the event, affirmed the three challenges to the realization of the right to development identified by OHCHR: the impasse in the intergovernmental debate; the need to mainstream the right to development in the work of the United Nations system, thus ensuring policy coherence in the global partnership for development; and the need to build a broader right-to-development constituency in civil society.3 10. At the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held from 9 to 13 May 2011, in Istanbul, Turkey, OHCHR delivered a statement4 and observed that human rights, including the right to development, were central to the course of development envisaged for the least developed countries for the coming decade; highlighted the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development as an opportunity to reinvigorate partnerships to build an enabling environment for development, inclusive of human rights principles; stressed the linkages between development, poverty reduction and gender equality and the contribution of women to development; and reaffirmed the commitment of OHCHR to support human rights-based development in the least developed countries. In addition to the article by the High Commissioner (annex II), OHCHR submitted a written contribution entitled “The right to development approach to a new global partnership for development for the least developed countries”5 to inform the outcome of the Conference. The Istanbul Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted at the Conference, embraced a significant number of explicit human rights considerations, including the right to development. OHCHR is working closely with relevant United Nations bodies, including the Office of the High 1 2 3 4 5 4 See www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Development/Pages/DevelopmentIndex.aspx. See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=10759&LangID=e. See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DevelopmentHumanRightForAll.aspx. See www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=11003&LangID=E. www2.ohchr.org/SPdocs/Issues/Development/LDCIV/OHCHRWrittenContributionLDC.doc.