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The right to development
programmes and objectives, and stresses the need for the international financial and
multilateral trading systems to mainstream the right to development in their policies
and objectives;
44. Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the
attention of Member States, United Nations organs and bodies, the specialized
agencies, funds and programmes, international development and financial
institutions, in particular the Bretton Woods institutions, and non -governmental
organizations;
45. Supports the decision of the Human Rights Council, as part of the
activities to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right
to Development, to request the High Commissioner to seek the views of Member
States in preparing a paper on the realization and implementation of the right to
development, as elaborated in the Declaration, in particular its article 4;
46. Decides to convene a one-day high-level segment of the General
Assembly, in the margins of the general debate of the Assembly at its seventy-first
session, in order to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the
Right to Development;
47. Encourages Member States, individually and collectively, to convene
events with their own resources for the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary
of the Declaration on the Right to Development;
48. Also encourages Member States to give particular consideration to the
right to development in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sus tainable
Development;
49. Notes that the theme of the Human Rights Council high-level panel on
human rights mainstreaming, to be held during the thirty-first session of the
Council, in March 2016, will be “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
and human rights, with an emphasis on the right to development”;
50. Encourages relevant bodies of the United Nations system, within their
respective mandates, including United Nations funds and programmes and the
specialized agencies, relevant international organizations, including the World Trade
Organization and relevant stakeholders, including civil society organizations, to
give due consideration to the right to development in the implementation of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to contribute further to the work of the
Working Group on the Right to Development and to cooperate with the High
Commissioner in the fulfilment of his mandate with regard to the implementation of
the right to development;
51. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General
Assembly at its seventy-first session and an interim report to the Human Rights
Council on the implementation of the present resolution, including efforts
undertaken at the national, regional and international levels in the promotio n and
realization of the right to development, and invites the Chair -Rapporteur of the
Working Group to present an oral report and to engage in an interactive dialogue
with the Assembly at its seventy-first session.
80th plenary meeting
17 December 2015
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