A/HRC/19/45
I. Introduction
1.
In its resolution 65/219, the General Assembly reaffirmed its request to the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in mainstreaming the right to development,
to undertake effectively activities aimed at strengthening the global partnership for
development between Member States, development agencies and the international
development, financial and trade institutions, and to reflect those activities in detail in her
next report to the Human Rights Council. In resolution 65/219, the Assembly also
requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Assembly at its sixty-sixth
session, and an interim report to the Council on the implementation of resolution 65/219,
including efforts made at the national, regional and international levels in the promotion
and realization of the right to development.
2.
A note by the Secretariat was submitted to the Human Rights Council
(A/HRC/18/22) to explain that, in accordance with the practice established on the basis of
the timing of the reporting cycle, the consolidated report of the Secretary-General and High
Commissioner on the right to development would be submitted to the Council at the same
time as the report of the Working Group on the Right to Development in order to allow
consolidated action by the Council on the same thematic issue.
3.
The Working Group on the Right to Development convened its twelfth session from
14 to 18 November 2011. The Working Group will therefore submit its report on that
session to the Human Rights Council at its nineteenth session.
4.
The present report is submitted in accordance with the above-mentioned requests
and the note of the Secretariat, and also supplements the report of the Secretary-General on
the right to development (A/66/216) submitted to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth
session.
II. Activities of the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights relating to the promotion
and realization of the right to development, including in
commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United
Nations Declaration on the Right to Development
5.
As requested by the General Assembly in its resolution 65/219 and by the Human
Rights Council in its resolution 15/25, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights (OHCHR), in consultation with Member States and other relevant
stakeholders, launched in early 2011 a far-reaching programme of commemoration for the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development (see annex I).
A.
Communications, outreach and publicity activities
6.
A communication strategy for the anniversary was aimed at increasing global
awareness, creating wider outreach and building a broader constituency in support of the
right to development. OHCHR emphasized four messages for the anniversary: first, the
right to development is a human right; second, this right belongs to everyone, without
discrimination; third, the right to development is as relevant today as it was on the day the
Declaration was adopted and responds to contemporary challenges; and fourth, the
international community must act together in a coherent manner in order to realize the right
to development.
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