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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 concern over the suspension of the trade negotiations of the World
Trade Organization, and stressing 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 eleventh session of the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development, held in São Paulo, Brazil, from 13 to
18 June 2004, on the theme “Enhancing the coherence between national
development strategies and global economic processes towards economic growth
and development, particularly of developing countries”, 5
4F
Recalling also all its previous resolutions, Human Rights Council resolution
4/4 of 30 March 2007, 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 eighth session of the Working Group on the
Right to Development of the Human Rights Council, held in Geneva from
26 February to 2 March 2007, as contained in the report of the Working Group, 8
7F
Recalling the Fourteenth Conference of Heads of State or Government of
Non-Aligned Countries, held in Havana on 15 and 16 September 2006, the
Ministerial Meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the Movement of Non-Aligned
Countries, held in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on 29 and 30 May 2006, and the Fourteenth
Ministerial Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Durban,
South Africa, from 17 to 19 August 2004,
Reiterating its continuing support for the New Partnership for Africa’s
Development 9 as a development framework for Africa,
8F
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,
Recognizing further that historical injustices have undeniably contributed to
the poverty, underdevelopment, marginalization, social exclusion, economic
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5
See TD/412.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/62/53),
chap. III, sect. A.
7
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
8
A/HRC/4/47.
9
A/57/304, annex.
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