A/HRC/RES/48/10
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 October 2021
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-eighth session
13 September–11 October 2021
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 8 October 2021
48/10.
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 45/6 of 6 October 2020 and Assembly resolution 75/182 of 16 December 2020,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 74/270 of 2 April 2020, on global solidarity
to fight the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), 74/274 of 20 April 2020, on international
cooperation to ensure global access to medicines, vaccines and medical equipment to face
COVID-19, 74/306 of 11 September 2020, on a comprehensive and coordinated response to
the COVID-19 pandemic, and 74/307 of 11 September 2020, on a united response against
global health threats: combating COVID-19,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolution 46/14 of 23 March 2021, on ensuring
equitable, affordable, timely and universal access for all countries to vaccines in response to
the COVID-19 pandemic, in which the Council expressed deep concern about the negative
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the enjoyment of human rights around the world, and
emphasized the importance of human rights in shaping the response to the pandemic,
Recalling further 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
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General Assembly resolution 73/291.
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