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Deeply concerned that the majority of indigenous peoples in the world live in
conditions of poverty, and recognizing the critical need to address the negative
impact of poverty and inequity on indigenous peoples by ensuring their full and
effective inclusion in development and poverty eradication programmes,
Reaffirming the universality, indivisibility, interrelatedness, interdependence
and mutually reinforcing nature of all civil, cultural, economic, political and social
rights, including the right to development,
Expressing deep concern over the lack of progress in the trade negotiations of
the World Trade Organization, and reaffirming the need for a successful outcome of
the Doha Development Round in key areas such as agriculture, market access for
non-agricultural products, trade facilitation, development and services,
Recalling the outcome of the twelfth session of the United Nations Conference
on Trade and Development, held in Accra from 20 to 25 April 2008, on the theme
“Addressing the opportunities and challenges of globalization for development”, 5
Recalling also all its previous resolutions, Human Rights Council resolution
15/25 of 1 October 2010, 6 previous resolutions of the Council and those of the
Commission on Human Rights on the right to development, in particular
Commission resolution 1998/72 of 22 April 1998 7 on the urgent need to make
further progress towards the realization of the right to development as set out in the
Declaration on the Right to Development,
Recalling further that 2011 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
Declaration on the Right to Development,
Welcoming the outcome of the eleventh session of the Working Group on the
Right to Development of the Human Rights Council, held in Geneva from 26 to
30 April 2010, as contained in the report of the Working Group 8 and as referred to in
the report of the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights on the right to development, 9
Recalling the Fifteenth Summit Conference of Heads of State and Government
of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, from
11 to 16 July 2009, and the previous summits and conferences at which the States
members of the Movement stressed the need to operationalize the right to
development as a priority,
Reiterating its continuing support for the New Partnership for Africa’s
Development 10 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 of the Human Rights Council and the
members of the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to
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5
See TD/442 and Corr.1.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1),
chap. II.
7
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
8
A/HRC/15/23.
9
A/HRC/15/24.
10
A/57/304, annex.
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