A/RES/72/167
The right to development
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, 4
Recognizing the importance of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, 5 reaffirming that the Declaration on the Right to Development
informed the 2030 Agenda, along with other relevant international instruments, and
underlining the fact that the Sustainable Development Goals can be realized only
through a credible, effective and universal commitment to the means of
implementation by all stakeholders,
Welcoming the successful conclusion of the United Nations Conference on
Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito from 17 to
20 October 2016, that recognizes that the New Urban Agenda 6 is grounded in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights treaties, the
Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome 7 and is informed by
other instruments such as the Declaration on the Right to Development,
Recognizing the significance of the events held to commemorate the thirtieth
anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, which contributed
towards according the right to development the great attention that it deserves and
presented the international community with an opportunity to demonstrate and
reiterate its political commitment to the implementation and realization of the right
to development,
Deeply concerned that the majority of indigenous peoples in the world live in
conditions of poverty, and recognizing the critical need to address the negative impact
of poverty and inequity on indigenous peoples by ensuring their full and effective
inclusion in development and poverty eradication programmes,
Recalling the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the
World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and its outcome document, 8
Reaffirming the universality, indivisibility, interrelatedness, interdependence
and mutually reinforcing nature of all civil, cultural, economic, political and social
rights, including the right to development,
Reaffirming also that democracy, development and respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms are interdependent and mutually reinforcing and that
democracy is based on the freely expressed will of the people to determine their own
political, economic, social and cultural systems and their full participation in all
aspects of their lives, and in that context noting that the promotion and protection of
human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels should
be universal and conducted without conditions attached and that the international
community should support the strengthening and promotion of democracy,
development and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in the entire
world,
Taking note of the commitment declared by a number of specialized agencies,
funds and programmes of the United Nations system and other i nternational
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, po licies,
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