A/HRC/19/45 remarks at the meeting.18 The Working Group ended its session by consensus adoption of its conclusions and recommendations.19 20. OHCHR organized an expert panel discussion on “the right to development at 25”, which was scheduled for 5 December 2011 in New York. The discussion is designed to bring together leading thinkers on global issues to address the right to development and human-rights based development in the broader context of contemporary global issues, including multiple global economic and financial crises. III. Conclusions and recommendations 21. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on the Right to Development provided an opportunity for the international community to reflect on the lessons learned, achievements made and the potential of the right to development in addressing contemporary global challenges in an increasingly interdependent and globalized world. The anniversary led to an unprecedented amount of initiatives and activities by stakeholders, international organizations, academic institutions, nongovernmental organizations and civil society, as shown in the present report. 22. Many of the discussions echoed the four key messages that OHCHR emphasized at the launch of the anniversary year: development is a human right for all; the right to development belongs to everyone, without discrimination; the right to development is as relevant today as it was on the day the Declaration was adopted; and finally, we must act together in a determined and coherent manner in order to realize the right to development. The conclusions of the anniversary events call for a resolute transition from theory to action. They have also highlighted the many stubborn challenges that remain in the path of the meaningful realization of the right to development. 23. Firstly, twenty five years after the adoption of the Declaration, the politicization, polarization and stubborn impasse in the intergovernmental debate on the right to development must end. It is imperative that principled common ground be found, through greater political consensus and more political will. The starting point for such consensus must be the Declaration itself. 24. Secondly, we must work to enlarge the organized constituency in support of the right to development. Non-governmental organizations and civil society at large are the engine of human rights. We must heed them, include them and support them in their work. 25. Thirdly, the resolution in which the General Assembly established the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights explicitly included the mandate to promote and protect the realization of the right to development and to enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations system for this purpose. This underscores the seminal importance of human rights-based policy coherence in the global partnership for development, and requires full mainstreaming of all human rights, including the right to development, into the work of the United Nations system, most importantly in the upcoming quadrennial comprehensive policy review and in the post-2015 development agenda. 18 19 See www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Development/HCopening_statement12thsessionGWRtoDep.pdf. See A/HRC/19/52. 7