A/HRC/15/32 between persons by virtue of the global social and economic processes that connect them across national jurisdictions. Structural social injustices can cause harm to people, requiring a conception of responsibility that recognizes this connection.3 Writers have also stressed the need, in this regard, for a greater coordinating role for international institutions in ensuring accountability and responsibilities, cohesion and coherence. Our actions — and inaction — touch people every day across the globe, which in turn calls us to act, to grant dignity to the poor and rethink our engagement with the world.4 42. In the sphere of international law and policy, the Charter of the United Nations expresses the need to promote social progress and better standards of living in larger freedom and, to that end, to employ international mechanisms for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, and calls for international cooperation in solving problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian nature. The Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations of 1970 provides further evidence of consensus on the need for cooperation and friendly relations. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights refers to the need for universal brotherhood in its very first article, and further integrates the values of solidarity, justice and equity and duties of all in articles 28 and 29. Again, solidarity is a refrain in the Vienna Declaration and Programme for Action of 1993. In its resolution 8/5, the Council proposes the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, explicitly referring to the rights to development and international solidarity. The idea of the common heritage of humankind in the Law of the Sea Convention of 1982 gives binding legal effect to social justice values at the global level. The principle of solidarity also permeates regional human rights instruments, including the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Arab Charter on Human Rights, which underscore regional solidarity as a central means and goal of regional economic, social and political relations. 43. The obligations of international assistance and cooperation are complementary to the primary responsibility of States to meet their national human rights obligations. International cooperation rests on the premise that some members of the international community may not possess the resources necessary for the full realization of rights set forth in conventions. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in its general comment No. 3, stated that international cooperation for development, and thus the realization of economic, social and cultural rights, is an obligation of all States, in accordance with Articles 55 and 56 of the Charter of the United Nations, well-established principles of international law and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights itself. In the context of the right to development, the open-ended Working Group on the Right to Development underlined that, in the international economic, commercial and financial spheres, core principles, such as equality, equity, nondiscrimination, transparency, accountability, participation and international cooperation, including partnership and commitments, are important for the realization of the right to development (E/CN.4/2002/28/Rev.1). Studies reflecting on the international dimension of the right to development have identified different levels of responsibility for development, 3 4 GE.10-14914 I.M. Young, “Responsibility and global justice: a social connection model”, 2006, 23 (1) Social Philosophy and Policy, p. 102; O. O’Neill, The Bounds of Justice, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000. See J. Novogratz, The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World, Rodale, New York, 2009. 13