The right to development
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12. Also stresses that it is important that the Chair-Rapporteur and the
Working Group, in the discharge of their mandates, take into account the need:
(a) To promote the democratization of the system of international
governance in order to increase the effective participation of developing countries in
international decision-making;
(b) To also promote effective partnerships such as the New Partnership for
Africa’s Development10 and other similar initiatives with the developing countries,
particularly the least developed countries, for the purpose of the realization of their
right to development, including the achievement of the Millennium Development
Goals;
(c) To strive for greater acceptance, operationalization and realization of the
right to development at the international level, while urging all States to undertake
at the national level the necessary policy formulation and to institute the measures
required for the implementation of the right to development as an integral part of all
human rights and fundamental freedoms, and also urging all States to expand and
deepen mutually beneficial cooperation in ensuring development and eliminating
obstacles to development in the context of promoting effective international
cooperation for the realization of the right to development, bearing in mind that
lasting progress towards the implementation of the right to development requires
effective development policies at the national level and a favourable economic
environment at the international level;
(d) To consider ways and means to continue to ensure the operationalization
of the right to development as a priority;
(e) To mainstream the right to development in the policies and operational
activities of the United Nations and the specialized agencies, funds and
programmes, as well as in the policies and strategies of the international financial
and multilateral trading systems, bearing in mind in this regard that the core
principles of the international economic, commercial and financial spheres, such as
equity, non-discrimination, transparency, accountability, participation and
international cooperation, including effective partnerships for development, are
indispensable in achieving the right to development and preventing discriminatory
treatment arising from political or other non-economic considerations in addressing
the issues of concern to the developing countries;
13. Encourages the Human Rights Council to continue considering how to
ensure follow-up to the work of the former Subcommission on the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights on the right to development, in accordance with the
relevant provisions of the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the
Commission on Human Rights and in compliance with decisions to be taken by the
Council;
14. Invites Member States and all other stakeholders to participate actively in
future sessions of the Social Forum, while recognizing the strong support extended
to the Forum at its first four sessions by the Subcommission on the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights;
15. Reaffirms the commitment to implement the goals and targets set out in
all the outcome documents of the major United Nations conferences and summits
and their review processes, in particular those relating to the realization of the right
to development, recognizing that the realization of the right to development is
critical to achieving the objectives, goals and targets set in those outcome
documents;
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