United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/108
Distr.: General
13 March 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 114 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/602/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
55/108. The right to development
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, expressing in particular the
determination to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger
freedom and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic
and social advancement of all peoples,
Recalling that the Declaration on the Right to Development 1 confirmed that the
right to development is an inalienable human right and that equality of opportunity
for development is a prerogative both of nations and of individuals who make up
nations,
Noting that the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to
25 June 1993, reaffirmed the right to development as a universal and inalienable
right and an integral part of all fundamental human rights, 2
Recognizing that the Declaration on the Right to Development constitutes an
integral link between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 3 and the Vienna
Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human
Rights on 25 June 1993 2 through its elaboration of a holistic vision integrating
economic, social and cultural rights with civil and political rights,
Expressing its concern that, more than fifty years after the adoption of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the unacceptable situation of absolute
poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, illiteracy and hopelessness
remains the lot of over one billion people,
Emphasizing that the promotion, protection and realization of the right to
development are an integral part of the promotion and protection of all human
rights,
Noting that the human person is the central subject of development and that
development policy should therefore make the human being the main participant in
and beneficiary of development,
1
Resolution 41/128, annex.
See A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
3
Resolution 217 A (III).
2
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