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Stresses the importance of the core principles contained in the
conclusions of the Working Group at its third session, 8 congruent with the purpose
of international human rights instruments, such as equality, non-discrimination,
accountability, participation and international cooperation, as critical to
mainstreaming the right to development at the national and international levels, and
underlines the importance of the principles of equity and transparency;
Notes with concern that the Subcommission on the Promotion and
5.
Protection of Human Rights at its fifty-sixth session did not consider the working
paper identifying and analysing possible alternatives, and requests the
Subcommission, without further delay, to submit to the Commission on Human
Rights at its sixty-second session the concept document establishing options for the
implementation of the right to development and their feasibility;
Takes note of the convening and outcome of the second Social Forum
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held at Geneva on 22 and 23 July 2004 on the theme “Poverty, rural poverty and
human rights” 9 and the strong support extended to it by the Subcommission on the
Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, and invites all stakeholders, including
Member States, to participate actively in its subsequent sessions;
Reaffirms the commitment to implement the goals and targets set out in
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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;
Also reaffirms that the realization of the right to development is essential
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to the implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,1 which
regards all human rights as universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated,
places the human person at the centre of development and recognizes that, while
development facilitates the enjoyment of all human rights, the lack of development
may not be invoked to justify the abridgement of internationally recognized human
rights;
Stresses that the basic responsibility for the promotion and protection of
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all human rights lies with the State, and reaffirms that States have the primary
responsibility for their own economic and social development and that the role of
national policies and development strategies cannot be overemphasized;
10. Reaffirms that States have the primary responsibility for the creation of
national and international conditions favourable to the realization of the right to
development and their commitment to cooperating with each other to that end;
11. Also reaffirms the need for an international environment that is
conducive to the realization of the right to development;
12. Stresses the need to strive for greater acceptance, operationalization and
realization of the right to development at the international and national levels, and
calls upon States to institute the measures required for the implementation of the
right to development as a fundamental human right;
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E/CN.4/2002/28/Rev.1, sect. VIII.A.
See E/CN.4/Sub.2/2004/26 and Corr.1.
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