United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/58/172
Distr.: General
11 March 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 117 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2003
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/508/Add.2)]
58/172. 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,
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, 1
Stressing the need for undertaking urgent measures to implement the goals and
targets set at all the major United Nations conferences and summits and their review
processes, which are paramount in the process of the realization of the right to
development,
Taking note of the outcome of the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World
Trade Organization, held in Doha from 9 to 14 November 2001, 2
Recalling 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 the individual as 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,
Recalling all its previous resolutions and those of the Commission on Human
Rights on the right to development, in particular Commission resolution 1998/72 of
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1
See resolution 55/2.
A/C.2/56/7, annex.
3
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
2
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