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. 3

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