A/HRC/36/49 and was adopted with the great majority of States supporting it. 1 The Declaration is aimed at promoting a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be fully realized. 6. The right to development was reaffirmed in 1992 in the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, in which it is stated that the right to development must be fulfilled so as to equitably meet developmental and environmental needs of present and future generations (principle 3). In paragraph 10 of part I of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by consensus in 1993, the World Conference on Human Rights reaffirmed the right to development as a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of fundamental human rights. 7. The right to development was also reaffirmed in various international declarations and outcome documents issued between the adoption of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 and the adoption of the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The Future We Want”, in 2012. In 2015, the right to development was explicitly recognized in four key internationally agreed policy documents: the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development; the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030; “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, which included the Sustainable Development Goals; and the Paris Agreement on climate change. These documents have become part of the policy and normative foundation of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur. III. Normative framework A. Charter of the United Nations 8. Already in 1945, the Charter of the United Nations (Arts. 1, 55 and 56) established the foundations of the right to development, by stating that the creation of conditions of stability and well-being are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and by mandating the United Nations to promote: higher standards of living, full employment, and conditions of economic and social progress and development; solutions to international economic, social, health, and related problems; international cultural and educational cooperation; and universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. B. Declaration on the Right to Development as a guiding standard 9. Article 1 of the Declaration on the Right to Development states that the right to development is an inalienable human right by virtue of which every human person and all peoples are entitled to participate in, contribute to and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political development, in which all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be fully realized. It further states that the human right to development also implies the full realization of the right of peoples to self-determination, which includes, subject to the relevant provisions of both International Covenants on Human Rights, the exercise of their inalienable right to full sovereignty over all their natural wealth and resources. The right to development, as established in the Declaration, is an equal right among all universal, inalienable, interrelated, interdependent and indivisible human rights. 10. The Declaration is not in itself legally binding. However, many of its provisions are mirrored in legally binding instruments, such as the Charter of the United Nations and the International Covenants on Human Rights, and principles such as non-discrimination and 1 146 Member States voted in favour, one against (United States of America) and eight abstained (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland). 3