A/RES/72/167
The right to development
10. Also stresses that it is important that the Chair-Rapporteur and the Working
Group, in the discharge of their mandates, take into account the need:
(a) To promote the democratization of the system of international governance
in order to increase the effective participation of developing countries in international
decision-making;
(b) To also promote effective partnerships such as the New Partnership for
Africa’s Development 14 and other similar initiatives with the developing countries,
particularly the least developed countries, for the purpose of the realization of their
right to development, including the achievement of the Sustainable Development
Goals;
(c) 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, 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 operationalization
of the right to development as a priority;
(e) To mainstream the right to development in the policies and operational
activities of the specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations
system, 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;
11. 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 Genera l Assembly and the
Commission on Human Rights and in compliance with decisions to be taken by the
Council;
12. Welcomes the first report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to
development, submitted to the Human Rights Council at its thirty -sixth session, 19 and
requests him to pay particular attention to the implementation of the right to
development;
13. Urges Member States, the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights and other relevant specialized agencies, funds and
programmes of the United Nations system to provide the Special Rapporteur with all
the assistance and support necessary for the fulfilment of his mandate;
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