A/RES/70/155
The right to development
human rights and fundamental freedoms, and also while urging all States to expand
and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation in ensuring development and
eliminating obstacles to development in the context of promoting effective
international cooperation for the realization of the right to development, bearing in
mind that lasting progress towards the implementation of the right to development
requires effective development policies at the national level and a favourable
economic environment at the international level;
(d) To consider ways and means to continue to ensure the op erationalization
of the right to development as a priority;
(e) To mainstream the right to development in the policies and operational
activities of the United Nations and the specialized agencies, funds and
programmes, as well as in the policies and strategies of the international financial
and multilateral trading systems, bearing in mind in this regard that the core
principles of the international economic, commercial and financial spheres, such as
equity, non-discrimination, transparency, accountability, participation and
international cooperation, including effective partnerships for development, are
indispensable in achieving the right to development and preventing discriminatory
treatment arising from political or other non-economic considerations in addressing
the issues of concern to the developing countries;
14. Encourages the Human Rights Council to continue to consider how to
ensure follow-up to the work of the former Subcommission on the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights on the right to development, in accordance with the
relevant provisions of the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the
Commission on Human Rights and in compliance with decisions to be taken by the
Council;
15. Reaffirms the commitment to implement the goals and targets set out in
all the outcome documents of the major United Nations conferences and summits
and their review processes, in particular those relating to the realization of the right
to development, recognizing that the realization of the right to d evelopment is
critical to achieving the objectives, goals and targets set in those outcome
documents;
16. Also reaffirms that the realization of the right to development is essential
to the implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, which
regards all human rights as universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated,
places the human person at the centre of development and recognizes that, while
development facilitates the enjoyment of all human rights, lack of development may
not be invoked to justify the abridgement of internationally recognized human
rights;
17. Stresses that the primary responsibility for the promotion and protection
of all human rights lies with the State, and reaffirms that States have the primary
responsibility for their own economic and social development and that the role of
national policies and development strategies cannot be overemphasized;
18. Reaffirms the primary responsibility of States to create national and
international conditions favourable to the realization of the right to development, as
well as their commitment to cooperate with one another to that end;
19. Expresses concern about the increasing cases of human rights violations
and abuses by some transnational corporations and other business enterprises,
underlines the need to ensure that appropriate protection, justice and remedies are
provided to the victims of human rights violations and ab uses resulting from their
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