The right to development
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related processes, including the follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference
on the Least Developed Countries,
Recalling the outcomes adopted at the Tenth Ministerial Conference of the
World Trade Organization, held in Nairobi from 15 to 19 December 2015,
Calling for a successful, development-oriented outcome of the trade
negotiations of the World Trade Organization, in particular on the remaining issues
of the Doha Development Round, as a contribution to the creation of internationa l
conditions permitting the full realization of the right to development,
Recalling the outcome of the fourteenth session of the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development, held in Nairobi from 17 to 2 2 July 2016, on
the theme “From decision to action: moving towards an inclusive and equitable global
economic environment for trade and development”, 10
Recalling also all its previous resolutions, Human Rights Council resolutions
and those of the Commission on Human Rights on the right to development , in
particular Commission resolution 1998/72 of 22 April 1998 11 on the urgent need to
make further progress towards the realization of the right to development,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolution 35/21 of 22 June 2017 on
the contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights, 12
Recalling the Seventeenth Conference of Heads of State or Government of
Non-Aligned Countries, held on Margarita Island, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
from 13 to 18 September 2016, and the previous summits and conferences at which
the States members of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries stressed the need to
operationalize the right to development as a priority, including through the
elaboration of a convention on the right to development by the relevant machinery,
taking into account the recommendations of relevant initiatives,
Reiterating its continuing support for the New Partnership for Africa’s
Development 13 as a development framework for Africa,
Deeply concerned about the negative impacts of the global economic and
financial crises on the realization of the right to development,
Recognizing that, while development facilitates the enjoyment of all human
rights, the lack of development may not be invoked to justify th e abridgement of
internationally recognized human rights,
Recognizing also that Member States should cooperate with one another in
ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to development, that the
international community should promote effective international cooperation, in
particular to revitalize a global partnership for development, for the realization of the
right to development and the elimination of obstacles to development and that lasting
progress towards the implementation of the right to development requires effective
development policies at the national level, as well as equitable economic relations
and a favourable economic environment at the international level,
Recognizing further that poverty is an affront to human dignity,
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See TD/519, TD/519/Add.1, TD/519/Add.2 and TD/519/Add.2/Corr.1.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23),
chap. II, sect. A.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/72/53), chap. V, sect. A.
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