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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. 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;
39. 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;
40. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General
Assembly at its sixty-fifth 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 of the Working Group
on the Right to Development to present a verbal update to the Assembly at its
sixty-fifth session.
65th plenary meeting
18 December 2009
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