A/HRC/RES/37/25
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 April 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-seventh session
26 February–23 March 2018
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 23 March 2018
37/25.
The need for an integrated approach to the implementation of the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development for the full realization of human
rights, focusing holistically on the means of implementation
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Guided also by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard
of achievement for all peoples and all nations,
Recalling all relevant international human rights treaties, including the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights,
Recalling also the Declaration on the Right to Development, which recognizes that
States have the right and the duty to formulate appropriate national development policies
that are aimed at the constant improvement of the well-being of the entire population and of
all individuals, on the basis of their active, free and meaningful participation in
development and in the fair distribution of the benefits resulting therefrom,
Recalling further that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is guided by
the purposes and principles of the Charter, including full respect for international law, is
grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights
treaties, the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome,
and is informed by other instruments, such as the Declaration on the Right to Development,
Recalling that the Sustainable Development Goals seek to build on the Millennium
Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve, to realize the human rights of
all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and that
they are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable
development: the economic, the social and the environmental,
Recalling also that the 2030 Agenda has been accepted by all States and is
applicable to all, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of
development and respecting national policies and priorities, and that these are universal
goals and targets that involve the entire world, developed and developing States alike,
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