The right to development
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organizations to make the right to development a reality for all, and in this regard
urging all relevant bodies of the United Nations system and other international
organizations to mainstream the right to development into their objectives, policies,
programmes and operational activities, as well as into development and development related processes, including the follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference
on the Least Developed Countries,
Recalling the outcomes adopted at the Tenth Ministerial Conference of the
World Trade Organization, held in Nairobi from 15 to 19 December 2015,
Calling for a successful, development-oriented outcome of the trade
negotiations of the World Trade Organization, in particular on the remaining issues
of the Doha Development Round, as a contribution to the creation of international
conditions permitting the full realization of the right to develo pment,
Recalling the outcome of the fourteenth session of the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development, held in Nairobi from 17 to 22 July 2016, on
the theme “From decision to action: moving towards an inclusive and equitable global
economic environment for trade and development”, 10
Recalling also all its previous resolutions on the subject, the most recent of
which was resolution 73/166 of 17 December 2018, as well as Human Rights Council
resolutions and those of the Commission on Human Rights on the right to
development, in particular Commission resolution 1998/72 of 22 April 1998 11 on the
urgent need to make further progress towards the realization of the right to
development,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolution 35/21 of 22 June 2017 on
the contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights, 12
Recalling the Eighteenth Summit of Heads of State and Government of
Non-Aligned Countries, held in Baku on 25 and 26 October 2019, and the previous
summits and conferences at which the States members of the Movement of
Non-Aligned Countries stressed the need to operationalize the right to development
as a priority, including through the elaboration of a convention on the right to
development by the relevant machinery, taking into account the recommendations of
relevant initiatives,
Reiterating its continuing support for the New Partnership for Africa’s
Development 13 as a development framework for Africa,
Deeply concerned about the negative impacts of the global economic and
financial crises on the realization of the right to development,
Recognizing that, while development facilitates the enjoyment of all human
rights, the lack of development may not be invoked to justify the abridgement of
internationally recognized human rights,
Recognizing also that Member States should cooperate with one another in
ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to development, that the
international community should promote effective international cooperation, in
particular to revitalize a global partnership for development, for the realization of the
right to development and the elimination of obstacles to development and that lasting
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See TD/519, TD/519/Add.1, TD/519/Add.2 and TD/519/Add.2/Corr.1.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23),
chap. II, sect. A.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/72/53), chap. V, sect. A.
A/57/304, annex.
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