A/RES/62/161
United Nations
Distr.: General
13 March 2008
General Assembly
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 70 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2007
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/62/439/Add.2)]
62/161. The right to development
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, which expresses, in particular,
the determination to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger
freedom, as well as to employ international mechanisms for the promotion of the
economic and social advancement of all peoples,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 as well as the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 2 and the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,2
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1F
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Recalling also the outcomes of all the major United Nations conferences and
summits in the economic and social fields,
Recalling further that the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted
by the General Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986, confirmed
that the right to development is an inalienable human right and that equality of
opportunity for development is a prerogative both of nations and of individuals who
make up nations, and that the individual is the central subject and beneficiary of
development,
Stressing that the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action 3 reaffirmed the
right to development as a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of
fundamental human rights, and the individual as the central subject and beneficiary
of development,
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Reaffirming the objective of making the right to development a reality for
everyone, as set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted by the
General Assembly on 8 September 2000, 4
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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
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
4
See resolution 55/2.
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