A/HRC/39/18 63. In implementing the 2030 Development Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals, States should: (a) Take into account the normative framework contained in the Declaration on the Right to Development, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments; (b) Interpret international treaties in the light of these standards, in particular the right to development; (c) Promote and maintain the policy space of developing countries to ensure that the management of their natural resources contributes to the realization of the right to development and sustainable development; (d) Undertake human rights impact assessments in relation to structural adjustments, austerity measures and other prescriptions for economic reform; (e) Work to achieve equitable representation of developing countries in international decision-making that affects them in institutions of global governance, address international inequality and the right to development, and set up transparent and participatory processes open to other stakeholders, including civil society, at all levels; (f) Encourage sovereign debt relief initiatives that benefit developing countries and cooperation to counter vulture funds that disrupt the capacity of States to negotiate debt restructuring; (g) Uphold the commitments made in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals target 17.1 with respect to capacity-building for tax administration, including through targeted use of official development assistance and provision of technical assistance and other forms of support; (h) Increase official development assistance, especially to least developed countries and countries in most need, while respecting the right and duty of the developing countries to determine their own development priorities and ensure that assistance is predictable, effective and transparent; (i) Promote measures for reducing costs and facilitating the transfer of remittances by migrant workers, including undocumented migrants, to their families; (j) Promote the adoption of trade and investment policies that foster the development of developing and least developed countries in accordance with the principle of special and differentiated treatment; (k) Promote the adoption of environmental policies that contribute to sustainable development and the mitigation of environmental disasters in developing and least developed countries, in particular those most vulnerable to climate change, taking into account the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities; (l) Promote negotiations in good faith towards disarmament and the investment of the resources released in the development of developing and least developed countries; (m) Promote international cooperation to ensure respect of international humanitarian law and human rights law, in particular with the view to ending foreign occupation and respecting the right to development of the peoples under occupation; (n) Promote fair and equitable distribution of the benefits resulting from development, globalization and global commons, including the common heritage of humankind. 15

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