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impact of poverty and inequity on indigenous peoples by ensuring their full and
effective inclusion in development and poverty eradication programmes,
Reaffirming the universality, indivisibility, interrelatedness, interdependence
and mutually reinforcing nature of all civil, cultural, economic, political and social
rights, including the right to development,
Expressing deep concern over the lack of progress in the trade negotiations of
the World Trade Organization, and reaffirming the need for a successful outcome of
the Doha Development Round in key areas such as agriculture, market access for
non-agricultural products, trade facilitation, development and services,
Recalling the outcome of the twelfth session of the United Nations Conference
on Trade and Development, held in Accra from 20 to 25 April 2008, on the theme
“Addressing the opportunities and challenges of globalization for development”, 5
4F
Recalling also all its previous resolutions, Human Rights Council
resolution 9/3 of 24 September 2008, 6 previous resolutions of the Council and those
of the Commission on Human Rights on the right to development, in particular
Commission resolution 1998/72 of 22 April 1998, 7 on the urgent need to make
further progress towards the realization of the right to development as set out in the
Declaration on the Right to Development,
5F
6F
Welcoming the outcome of the ninth session of the Working Group on the
Right to Development of the Human Rights Council, held in Geneva from 18 to
22 August 2008, as contained in the report of the Working Group 8 and as referred to
in the report of the Secretary-General on the right to development, 9
7F
8F
Recalling the Fourteenth Conference of Heads of State or Government of NonAligned Countries, held in Havana on 15 and 16 September 2006, the Fifteenth
Ministerial Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Tehran
on 29 and 30 July 2008, and the Ministerial Meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of
the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on 29 and
30 May 2006,
Reiterating its continuing support for the New Partnership for Africa’s
Development 10 as a development framework for Africa,
9F
Recognizing that poverty is an affront to human dignity,
Recognizing also that extreme poverty and hunger are the greatest global
threat that requires the collective commitment of the international community for its
eradication, pursuant to millennium development goal 1, and therefore calling upon
the international community, including the Human Rights Council, to contribute
towards achieving that goal,
Recognizing further that historical injustices have undeniably contributed to
the poverty, underdevelopment, marginalization, social exclusion, economic
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5
See TD/442 and Corr.1.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53 A (A/63/53/Add.1),
chap. I.
7
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
8
A/HRC/9/17.
9
A/63/340.
10
A/57/304, annex.
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