The right to development
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programmes and operational activities, as well as into development and development 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 1 9 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 international
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 22 July 2016, on
the theme “From decision to action: moving towards an inclusive and equitable global
economic environment for trade and development”, 9
Recalling also all its previous resolutions, Human Rights Council resolut ions
and those of the Commission on Human Rights on the right to development, in
particular Commission resolution 1998/72 of 22 April 1998 10 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, 11
Recalling the outcome of the eighteenth session of the Working Group on the
Right to Development of the Human Rights Council, held in Geneva from 3 to 7 April
2017, as contained in the report of the Working Group 12 and as referred to in the report
of the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, 13
Recalling also 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 14 as a development framework for Africa,
Expressing its appreciation for the efforts of the Chair-Rapporteur of the
Working Group on the Right to Development and the members of the high -level task
force on the implementation of the right to development in completing the 2008–2010
three-phase road map established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 4/4 of
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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.
A/HRC/36/35.
A/HRC/36/23.
A/57/304, annex.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/62/53), chap. III, sect. A.
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