A/RES/64/172
Recognizing further that historical injustices have undeniably contributed to
the poverty, underdevelopment, marginalization, social exclusion, economic
disparity, instability and insecurity that affect many people in different parts of the
world, in particular in developing countries,
Stressing that poverty eradication is one of the critical elements in the
promotion and realization of the right to development and that poverty is a
multifaceted problem that requires a multifaceted and integrated approach in
addressing economic, political, social, environmental and institutional dimensions at
all levels, especially in the context of the millennium development goal of halving,
by 2015, the proportion of the world’s people whose income is less than one dollar a
day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger,
Endorses the conclusions and recommendations adopted by consensus by
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the Working Group on the Right to Development of the Human Rights Council at its
tenth session,8 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;
1H
Supports the realization of the mandate of the Working Group, as
2.
renewed by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 9/3 of 24 September 2008, 11
with the recognition that the Working Group will convene annual sessions of five
working days and submit its reports to the Council;
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Also supports the realization of the mandate of the high-level task force
3.
on the implementation of the right to development established within the framework
of the Working Group, as renewed by the Human Rights Council in its resolution
9/3, with the further recognition that the task force will convene annual sessions of
seven working days and submit its reports to the Working Group;
Emphasizes the relevant provisions of General Assembly resolution
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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 to raising 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;
2H
Notes with appreciation that the high-level task force, at its second
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meeting, examined millennium development goal 8, on developing a global
partnership for development, and suggested criteria for a periodic evaluation with
the aim of improving the effectiveness of global partnership with regard to the
realization of the right to development; 12
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6.
Endorses the recommendations of the Working Group, as outlined in
paragraphs 44 to 46 of its report,8 which would ensure that the right to development
criteria and corresponding operational sub-criteria, to be submitted by the high-level
task force to the Working Group at its eleventh session in 2010, together with
suggestions for further work, address, in a comprehensive and coherent manner, the
3H
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/63/53/Add.1),
chap. I.
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See E/CN.4/2005/WG.18/TF/3.
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