A/HRC/RES/15/25
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 October 2010
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifteenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*
15/25
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,
Reaffirming also its resolutions 4/4 of 30 March 2007 and 9/3 of 17 September
2008, and recalling all Commission on Human Rights, Council and General Assembly
resolutions on the right to development,
Recognizing the renewed commitments to achieve the Millennium Development
Goals by their target date of 2015, as set out in the outcome document adopted at the Highlevel Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly on the Millennium
Development Goals,
Emphasizing the urgent need to make the right to development a reality for
everyone,
Stressing the primary responsibility of States for the creation of national and
international conditions favourable to the realization of the right to development,
Recalling that 2011 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the
Right to Development,
Expressing its appreciation for the efforts of the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the
Working Group on the Right to Development and the members of the high-level task force
*
GE.10-16770
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its fifteenth session (A/HRC/15/60), chap. I.