A/HRC/RES/45/6
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 October 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-fifth session
14 September–7 October 2020
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 6 October 2020
45/6.
The right to development
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the Charter of the United Nations and the core human rights instruments,
Reaffirming the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the General
Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986,
Reiterating the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, which reaffirms the
right to development as a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of fundamental
human rights,
Reaffirming Human Rights Council resolutions 4/4 of 30 March 2007 and 9/3 of 17
September 2008, recalling all Commission on Human Rights resolutions on the right to
development, including resolutions 1998/72 of 22 April 1998 and 2004/7 of 13 April 2004
in support of the implementation of the right to development, and recalling also all Council
and General Assembly resolutions on the right to development, the most recent being Council
resolution 42/23 of 27 September 2019 and Assembly resolution 74/152 of 18 December
2019,
Recalling the outcome document of the second High-level United Nations Conference
on South-South Cooperation, held in Buenos Aires from 20 to 22 March 2019, 1
Welcoming the final outcome document adopted at the Eighteenth Summit of Heads
of State and Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Baku on 25
and 26 October 2019, at which the States members of the Movement of Non-Aligned
Countries stressed the need to operationalize the right to development as a priority, including
through the elaboration of a legally binding instrument on the right to development by the
relevant machinery, taking into account the recommendations of relevant initiatives,
Emphasizing the urgent need to make the right to development a reality for everyone,
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General Assembly resolution 73/291.
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