A/RES/70/155
The right to development
effective and universal commitment to the means of implementation by all
stakeholders,
Stressing that the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to
Development presents a unique opportunity for the international community to
demonstrate and reiterate its unequivocal commitment to the right to development,
recognizing the high profile that it deserves, and redoubling its efforts to implement
this right,
1.
Takes note of the consolidated report of the Secretary-General and the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights concerning the promotion
and realization of the right to development; 14
2.
Recognizes the significance of all the events held to commemorate the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, 15
including the panel discussion on the theme “The way forward in the realization of
the right to development: between policy and practice”, held during the eighteenth
session of the Human Rights Council;
3.
Acknowledges the need to strive for greater acceptance, operationalization
and realization of the right to development at the international level while urging all
States to undertake at the national level the necessary policy formulation and to
institute the measures required for the implementation of the right to development as
an integral part of all human rights and fundamental freedoms;
4.
Supports the realization of the mandate of the Working Group on the
Right to Development, as renewed by the Human Rights Council in its resolution
9/3 of 24 September 2008, 16 and recognizes the need for renewed efforts towards
intensifying deliberations in the Working Group to fulfil its mandate at the earliest,
while welcoming the commencement of the second reading of the draft criteria and
corresponding operational subcriteria;
5.
Reaffirms the recommendations adopted by the Working Group at its
fourteenth session, 17 and calls for their immediate, full and effective implementation
by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and other
relevant actors, noting also the efforts under way within the framework of the
Working Group with a view to completing the tasks entrusted to it by the Council in
its resolution 4/4; 12
6.
Emphasizes the relevant provisions of General Assembly resolution
60/251 of 15 March 2006 establishing the Human Rights Council, and in this regard
calls upon the Council to implement the agreement to continue to act to ensure that
its agenda promotes and advances sustainable development and the achievement of
the Millennium Development Goals, and also in this regard to lead the raising of the
right to development, as set out in paragraphs 5 and 10 of the Vienna Declaration
and Programme of Action, 3 to the same level as and on a par with all other human
rights and fundamental freedoms;
7.
Stresses that the views, criteria and corresponding operational
subcriteria, once considered, revised and endorsed by the Working Group, should be
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14
A/HRC/30/22.
Resolution 41/128, annex.
16
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/63/53/Add.1), chap. I.
17
A/HRC/24/37.
15
4/10