A/HRC/RES/42/23
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 October 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-second session
9–27 September 2019
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 27 September 2019
42/23.
The right to development
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the Charter of the United Nations and the core human rights instruments,
Reaffirming the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the General
Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986,
Reiterating the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, which reaffirms the
right to development as a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of every human
right,
Reaffirming Human Rights Council resolutions 4/4 of 30 March 2007 and 9/3 of 17
September 2008, recalling all Commission on Human Rights resolutions on the right to
development, including resolutions 1998/72 of 22 April 1998 and 2004/7 of 13 April 2004
in support of the implementation of the right to development, and recalling also all Council
and General Assembly resolutions on the right to development, the most recent being Council
resolution 39/9 of 27 September 2018 and Assembly resolution 73/166 of 17 December 2018,
Recalling the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development, held from 20 to 22 June 2012, entitled “The future we want”,1 which
reaffirmed the commitment of the international community to sustainable development and
to ensuring the promotion of an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable
future for the planet and for present and future generations,
Recalling also the outcome document of the second High-level United Nations
Conference on South-South Cooperation, held in Buenos Aires from 20 to 22 March 2019,2
Welcoming the seventeenth Summit of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned
Countries, held on Margarita Island, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on 17 and 18
September 2016, and recalling 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 legally binding
instrument on the right to development by the relevant machinery, taking into account the
recommendations of relevant initiatives,
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General Assembly resolution 66/288.
General Assembly resolution 73/291.
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