A/RES/64/172
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
4F
Recalling also all its previous resolutions, Human Rights Council resolution
12/23 of 2 October 2009, 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,
5F
6F
Welcoming the outcome of the tenth session of the Working Group on the
Right to Development of the Human Rights Council, held in Geneva from 22 to
26 June 2009, as contained in the report of the Working Group 8 and as referred to in
the report of the Secretary-General, 9
7F
8F
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,
9F
Deeply concerned by the negative impacts of the global economic and
financial crises on the realization of the right to development,
Recognizing that poverty is an affront to human dignity,
Recognizing also that extreme poverty and hunger are the greatest global
threat that requires the collective commitment of the international community for its
eradication, pursuant to millennium development goal 1, and therefore calling upon
the international community, including the Human Rights Council, to contribute
towards achieving that goal,
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5
See TD/442 and Corr.1.
See A/HRC/12/50, part one, chap. I.
7
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
8
A/HRC/12/28.
9
A/64/256.
10
A/57/304, annex.
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