United Nations
A/RES/56/150
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 February 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 119 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/56/583/Add.2)]
56/150. The right to development
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, which expresses, in particular,
the determination to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger
freedom as well as to employ international mechanisms for the promotion of the
economic and social advancement of all peoples,
Recalling that the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the
General Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986, confirmed that the
right to development is an inalienable human right and that equality of opportunity
for development is a prerogative both of nations and of individuals who make up
nations,
Recalling also that the outcome of the World Conference on Human Rights,
held in Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, namely the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action, 1 reaffirmed the right to development as a universal and
inalienable right and an integral part of all fundamental human rights,
Recalling further the outcomes of the World Summit for Social Development, 2
and the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly entitled “World
Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving social development for all
in a globalizing world”, held in Geneva from 26 June to 1 July 2000, 3 especially as
they relate to the realization of the right to development,
Recalling its resolution 55/279 of 12 July 2001, in which it endorsed the
Brussels Declaration 4 and the Programme of Action for the Least Developed
Countries for the Decade 2001–2010 5 adopted by the Third United Nations
Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held in Brussels from 14 to 20 May 2001,
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1
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
3
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
4
A/CONF.191/12.
5
A/CONF.191/11.
2
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