A/HRC/RES/48/10 Recognizing that inequality is a major obstacle to the realization of the right to development within and across countries, Expressing concern about the increasing number of cases of human rights violations and abuses by transnational corporations and other business enterprises, underlining the need to ensure that appropriate protection, justice and remedies are provided to victims of human rights violations and abuses resulting from the activities of those entities, and underscoring the fact that they must contribute to the means of implementation for the realization of the right to development, Underlining that the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals will require the strengthening of a new, more equitable social and international order in which all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be fully realized, as envisioned in article 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Stressing the primary responsibility of States for the creation of national and international conditions favourable to the realization of the right to development, Recognizing that Member States should cooperate with each other in ensuring development and eliminating lasting obstacles to development, that the international community should promote effective international cooperation, in particular global partnerships for development, for the realization of the right to development, and that lasting progress towards the implementation of the right to development requires, inter alia, effective development policies at the national level, equitable economic relations and a favourable economic environment at the international level, Urging all Member States to engage constructively in discussions for the full implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development with a view to overcoming the existing political impasse within the Working Group on the Right to Development in order that it may fulfil, in a timely manner, its mandate as established by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1998/72 and the Human Rights Council in its resolution 4/4, Stressing that, in its resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, the General Assembly decided that the responsibility of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights shall be, among others, to promote and protect the realization of the right to development, and to enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations system for that purpose, and in its annual resolution on the right to development, the Assembly reaffirms its request to the High Commissioner, in mainstreaming the right to development, to effectively undertake activities aimed at strengthening the global partnership for development among Member States, development agencies and international development, financial and trade institutions, Recognizing the need for independent perspectives and expert advice to strengthen the work of the Working Group and to support the efforts of Member States to realize fully the right to development, including in the context of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, Recalling the report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on the importance of a legally binding instrument on the right to development,2 submitted to the Human Rights Council at its forty-fifth session pursuant to Council resolution 39/9 of 27 September 2018, Welcoming the discussions held by the Working Group at its twenty-first session on how a legally binding instrument would contribute to making the right to development a reality for all by creating conducive national and international conditions for its realization and by halting all measures that might have a negative impact on the right to development, in accordance with the Charter, the Declaration on the Right to Development and other relevant international instruments and documents, Welcoming also the commencement of the elaboration of a draft convention on the right to development on the basis of the draft submitted by the Chair-Rapporteur of the 2 A/HRC/45/40. 3