A/HRC/RES/19/34 4. Also takes note of the report of the Working Group on the Right to Development on its twelfth session;5 5. Decides: (a) To continue to act to ensure that its agenda promotes and advances sustainable development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and, in this regard, lead to raising the right to development, as set out in paragraphs 5 and 10 of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, to the same level and on a par with all other human rights and fundamental freedoms; (b) To take note of the conclusion of the Working Group on the need to further consider, revise and refine the right to development criteria and operational sub-criteria contained in the report of the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development on its sixth session;6 (c) To endorse the recommendations of the Working Group on the Right to Development as outlined in its report; (d) To invite Governments, groups of Governments, regional groups and other relevant stakeholders, including United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and institutions, as well as other relevant multilateral institutions and forums, to submit further detailed comments and proposals on the right to development criteria and operational subcriteria; (e) To request the Office of the High Commissioner to make available on its website, and to make available to the Working Group at its next session, in the format of two conference room papers, all written submissions by Governments, groups of Governments and regional groups, as well as inputs by other stakeholders; (f) To invite the Chairperson/Rapporteur of the Working Group to hold informal consultations with Governments, groups of Governments, regional groups and relevant stakeholders and to report thereon to the Working Group at its next session; (g) That the criteria and corresponding operational sub-criteria mentioned in subparagraph (b) above, once considered, revised and endorsed by the Working Group, should be used, as appropriate, in the elaboration of a comprehensive and coherent set of standards for the implementation of the right to development; (h) That the Working Group shall take appropriate steps to ensure respect for and the practical application of the above-mentioned standards, which could take various forms, including guidelines on the implementation of the right to development, and evolve into a basis for consideration of an international legal standard of a binding nature through a collaborative process of engagement; 6. Encourages the High Commissioner to pursue her efforts, in fulfilment of her mandated responsibility, to enhance support for the promotion and protection of the realization of the right to development, taking as reference the Declaration on the Right to Development, all resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the right to development, and agreed conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group; 7. Encourages relevant bodies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, including the United Nations funds, programmes and specialized 5 6 A/HRC/19/52 and Corr.1. A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2/Add.2 3

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