A/HRC/12/50
Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan,
Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of
America.]
12/23.
The right to development
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the Charter of the United Nations and the core human rights instruments,
Reaffirming the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the
General Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986,
Reaffirming also its resolutions 4/4 of 30 March 2007 and 9/3 of 17 September
2008, and recalling all Commission on Human Rights, Council and General Assembly
resolutions on the right to development,
Emphasizing the urgent need to make the right to development a reality for
everyone,
Stressing the primary responsibility of States for the creation of national and
international conditions favourable to the realization of the right to development,
Taking note of the efforts under way in the framework of the Working Group on the
Right to Development, with the support of the high-level task force on the implementation
of the right to development, to develop a set of right to development criteria and
corresponding operational subcriteria,
1.
Welcomes the report of the Working Group on the Right to Development
(A/HRC/12/28);
2.
Decides:
(a)
To continue to act to ensure that its agenda promotes and advances
sustainable development and the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and,
in this regard, to 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 endorse the recommendations of the Working Group, as outlined in
paragraphs 44 to 46 of its report, which would ensure that the right to development criteria
and corresponding operational subcriteria, to be submitted by the task force to the Working
Group at its eleventh session in 2010, together with suggestions for further work, address,
in a comprehensive and coherent manner, the essential features of the right to development,
as defined in the Declaration on the Right to Development, and including the priority
concerns of the international community beyond those enumerated in Millennium
Development Goal 8;
(c)
That, once considered, revised and endorsed by the Working Group, the
above-mentioned criteria and corresponding operational subcriteria should be used, as
appropriate, in the elaboration of a comprehensive and coherent set of standards for the
implementation of the right to development;
(d)
That, upon completion of the three phases of the 2008-2010 workplan of the
high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development, endorsed by the
Council in its resolution 9/3, the Working Group will take appropriate steps to ensure
respect for and practical application of the above-mentioned standards, which could take
various forms, including guidelines on the implementation of the right to development, and
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