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32. Recognizes the important link between the international economic,
commercial and financial spheres and the realization of the right to development,
stresses in this regard the need for good governance and for broadening the base of
decision-making at the international level on issues of d evelopment concern and the
need to fill organizational gaps, as well as to strengthen the United Nations system
and other multilateral institutions, and also stresses the need to broaden and
strengthen the participation of developing countries and countrie s with economies in
transition in international economic decision-making and norm-setting;
33. Also recognizes that good governance and the rule of law at the national
level assist all States in the promotion and protection of human rights, including
the right to development, and agrees on the value of the ongoing efforts being made
by States to identify and strengthen good governance practices, including
transparent, responsible, accountable and participatory government, that are
responsive and appropriate to their needs and aspirations, including in the context
of agreed partnership approaches to development, cap acity-building and technical
assistance;
34. Further recognizes the important role and the rights of women and the
application of a gender perspective as a cross-cutting issue in the process of
realizing the right to development, and notes in particular t he positive relationship
between the education of women and their equal participation in the civil, cultural,
economic, political and social activities of the community and the promotion of the
right to development;
35. Stresses the need for the integration of the rights of children, girls and
boys alike, in all policies and programmes and for ensuring the promotion and
protection of those rights, especially in areas relating to health, education and the
full development of their capacities;
36. Recalls the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to
Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030,
adopted on 8 June 2016 at the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on HIV
and AIDS, 19 and underscores the importance of enhanced international cooperation
to support the efforts of Member States to achieve health goals, including the target
of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030, implement universal access to health -care
services and address health challenges;
37. Also recalls the political declaration of the high-level meeting of the
General Assembly on the prevention and control of non -communicable diseases,
adopted on 19 September 2011, 20 with its particular focus on development and other
challenges and social and economic impacts, particularly for developing countries;
38. Further recalls the outcome document of the United Nations Conference
on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”; 21
39. Recalls the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 22
which entered into force on 3 May 2008, and General Assembly resolution 70/1 of
25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development”, and, while recognizing persons with disabilities as agents
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Resolution 70/266, annex.
Resolution 66/2, annex.
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Resolution 66/288, annex.
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