A/HRC/19/2
Stressing that, in General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, the
Assembly decided that the responsibility of the High Commissioner shall be, among others,
to promote and protect the realization of the right to development and to enhance support
from relevant bodies of the United Nations system for that purpose,
1.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General and the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to development,51 which
contains a summary of the activities undertaken by the Office of the High Commissioner
with regard to the promotion and realization of the right to development, including in
commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to
Development;
2.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to submit to the
Human Rights Council an annual report on its activities, including on inter-agency
coordination within the United Nations system with regard to the promotion and realization
of the right to development;
3.
Takes note of the efforts under way in the framework of the Working Group
on the Right to Development, with a view to completing the tasks entrusted to it by the
Human Rights Council in its resolution 4/4, in fulfilment of the Working Group’s mandate
as established by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1998/72 of 22 April
1998;
4.
Also takes note of the report of the Working Group on the Right to
Development on its twelfth session;52
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;53
(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;
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A/HRC/19/45.
A/HRC/19/52 and Corr.1.
A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2/Add.2.
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