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34. Recognizes the need for strong partnerships with civil society
organizations and the private sector in pursuit of poverty eradication and
development, as well as for corporate social responsibility;
35. Emphasizes the urgent need for taking concrete and effective measures to
prevent, combat and criminalize all forms of corruption at all levels, to prevent,
detect and deter in a more effective manner international transfers of illicitly
acquired assets and to strengthen international cooperation in asset recovery,
consistent with the principles of the United Nations Convention against
Corruption, 18 particularly chapter V thereof, stresses the importance of a genuine
political commitment on the part of all Governments through a firm legal
framework, and in this context urges States to sign and ratify the Convention as
soon as possible and States parties to implement it effectively;
36. Also emphasizes the need to strengthen further the activities of the Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the promotion and
realization of the right to development, including by ensuring effective use of the
financial and human resources necessary to fulfil its mandate, and calls upon the
Secretary-General to provide the Office of the High Commissioner with the
necessary resources;
37. Reaffirms the request to the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights, in mainstreaming the right to development, to undertake effectively
activities aimed at strengthening the global partnership for development between
Member States, development agencies and the international development, financial
and trade institutions, and to reflect those activities in detail in her next report to the
Human Rights Council;
38. Reaffirms the request to the Office of the High Commissioner, in
consultation with States Members of the United Nations and other relevant
stakeholders, to launch preparations for the commemoration of the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development in 2011;
39. Calls upon the United Nations funds and programmes, as well as the
specialized agencies, to mainstream the right to development in their operational
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;
40. Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the
attention of Member States, United Nations organs and bodies, specialized agencies,
funds and programmes, international development and financial institutions, in
particular the Bretton Woods institutions, and non-governmental organizations;
41. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General
Assembly at its sixty-sixth 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 promotion and
realization of the right to development, and invites the Chair-Rapporteur of the
Working Group on the Right to Development to present a verbal update to the
Assembly at its sixty-sixth session.
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