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subcriteria. It suggested that experts be selected at the national level and tasked with
making proposals on indicators. The Working Group must listen to the people whose lives
depended on the implementation of the right to development. The collection of good
practices and the involvement of national organizations could support its work.
45.
The International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations recalled that,
in 1986, the overwhelming majority of Member States had supported the Declaration on the
Right to Development. That right was necessary for the enjoyment of all other human rights
and must eventually be embodied in a legally binding framework. The Movement
expressed difficulty in understanding how some States continued to object to the substance
of the right to development or a legally binding framework. It called on all to strongly
commit themselves to the right to development. That was required by morality, as well as
by law, as that right was part of customary international law. The Movement perceived a
challenge in the discussion of measurability by States that had not all unambiguously
agreed on the right to development. Every major human rights instrument had been created
by first agreeing on a legal obligation and defining the core principles, and only then
considering mechanisms to measure whether or not a right was being respected. Only if all
parties agreed on the legal obligation could that measurement be discussed. It urged States
to cooperate on the right to development and called on the Working Group to consider how
it could contribute to the Open Working Group in defining the post-2015 development
agenda and sustainable development goals.
46.
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung asserted that the right to development belonged to
individuals and peoples, and its implementation was crucial to the post-2015 development
agenda. Implementation must take place at all levels, from local to global. Friedrich Ebert
Stiftung suggested that, on completion of the first reading of the criteria and subcriteria, the
Working Group should request the Human Rights Council to mandate its Advisory
Committee to support work on measurement and monitoring, building on the work done in
the Sub-Commission which had not received any follow-up. Expert advice could serve to
unlock political debate and the work of the high-level task force could provide useful
guidance. It was necessary to look at the options for the way forward and for the monitoring
and measurability, as well as the legal standing, of the right to development.
47.
The China NGO Network for International Exchanges stated that the criteria and
subcriteria represented a historic milestone on the right to development. In the pursuit of
sustainable development, it was necessary to look at the right to development, rights-based
development and the human rights-based approach; and national and international
obligations. States were not denied rights under the right to development, the biggest
obstacle to which was the unequal world order. The right to development supported all
countries to have equal opportunities for development. In the spirit of the Declaration on
the Right to Development, that right promoted global justice. It supported the solution of
problems of poverty, North-South inequality, inequality in financial systems and an unequal
international and social order. The right to development encompassed all human rights, but
was not limited to the sum total of all human rights in the two International Covenants;
rather, it built on them and added further value to them. Human rights provided for
protection at the national level, while the right to development needed to be implemented
first at the international level. While States had the primary responsibility at the national
level, the right to development required differentiated standards and responsibilities at the
international level. It called for greater inclusiveness and participation in global
governance, and required addressing not only outcomes, but also policies. The proposed
indicators were mostly national rather than international, and more indicators were needed
for the global level. The right to development required an institutional guarantee and was
not about international charity. National and international obligations must be given more
content, and a regional dimension should also be included.
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