A/HRC/27/45 development criteria and corresponding operational subcriteria, with the first reading of the draft criteria; acknowledged the need to further consider, revise and refine them; endorsed the recommendation of the Working Group that it pursue, at its fourteenth session, consideration of the draft operational subcriteria; decided to convene a two-day informal inter-sessional intergovernmental meeting of the Working Group with the participation of States, groups of States and relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and institutions, as well as other multilateral institutions and forums, international organizations and relevant stakeholders, with a view to improve its effectiveness at its fourteenth session; and decided to consider the extension of the meeting time of the Working Group, as appropriate. 13. In resolution 24/4, the Human Rights Council endorsed the recommendation of the Working Group that it continue, at its fifteenth session, work on the consideration of the draft operational subcriteria with the first reading of the remaining operational subcriteria. The Council also decided to convene a two-day informal inter-sessional intergovernmental meeting of the Working Group with a view to improve its effectiveness at its fifteenth session, and reiterated its decision to consider the extension of the meeting time of the Working Group, as appropriate. 14. The Working Group accordingly held a two-day informal inter-sessional meeting on 3 and 4 April 2014, and convened its fifteenth session in Geneva from 12 to 16 May 2014. II. Organization of the session 15. In her opening statement,2 the High Commissioner for Human Rights underscored the progress made in the recognition of the transformative potential of the right to development. It was now widely acknowledged that the right to development could contribute to a new paradigm for sustainable and equitable social justice built on the firm normative foundations of human rights. The High Commissioner recalled that it was mandatory to meet the needs of future generations, so that they could enjoy rights and economic opportunities in conditions of dignity and sustainability. She called upon the Working Group to guide the international community with a view to positioning the right to development in the post-2015 development agenda. The parameters of the right to development could inform the global debate on creating development that freed all human beings from fear and from want. Procedurally and substantially, the post-2015 development agenda must have the right to development at its core. The new development agenda’s goals, targets and indicators must explicitly align the development framework with human rights, including the right to development. Furthermore, the new development agenda must include a strong accountability framework that clearly identified the holders of rights and those responsible for fulfilling rights. It must also define mechanisms at all levels to ensure that relevant institutions were answerable for meeting their responsibilities, and were subject to enforceability where they did not deliver. Every human person and all peoples were entitled to a development process in which all human rights could be fully realized. That recognition was at the core of the human rights-based approach to development, and the responsibility for such development should be expanded to include actors in the private sector, notably large and transnational corporations. 2 The full text of the High Commissioner’s statement is available from www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Development/Pages/15thSession.aspx. 5