Human Rights Council
Resolution 4/4. The right to development
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling its resolution 1/4 of 30 June 2006, and recalling also all Commission
on Human Rights and General Assembly resolutions on the right to development, in
particular the urgent need to make the right to development a reality for everyone,
Recalling the Charter of the United Nations, and the core human rights
instruments,
Taking note of the efforts under way in the framework of the Working Group
on the Right to Development with the support of the high-level task force on the
implementation of the right to development to develop a set of criteria for the periodic
evaluation of global partnerships as identified in Millennium Development Goal 8,
1.
Welcomes the report of the eighth session of the Working Group on the
Right to Development (A/HRC/4/47);
2.
Decides:
(a)
To act to ensure that its agenda promotes and advances sustainable
development and the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and, in this
regard, to agree on a programme of work that will lead to raising the right to
development, as set out in paragraphs 5 and 10 of the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action, to the same level and on a par with all other human rights and
fundamental freedoms;
(b)
To endorse the road map outlined in paragraphs 52 to 54 of the report
of the eighth session of the Working Group on the Right to Development, which
would ensure that the criteria for the periodic evaluation of global partnerships, as
identified in Millennium Development Goal 8, prepared by the high-level task force
and being progressively developed and refined by the Working Group, is extended to
other components of Millennium Development Goal 8, by no later than 2009;