A/RES/69/181
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,5
Reaffirming the universality, indivisibility, interrelatedness, interdependence
and mutually reinforcing nature of all civil, cultural, economic, political and social
rights, including the right to development,
Expressing deep concern over the lack of substantial progress in the trade
negotiations of the World Trade Organization, and reaffirming the need for a
successful outcome of the Doha Development Round in key areas such as
agriculture, market access for non-agricultural products, trade facilitation,
development and services,
Recalling the outcome of the twelfth session of the United Nations Conference
on Trade and Development, held in Accra from 20 to 25 April 2008, on the theme
“Addressing the opportunities and challenges of globalization for development”,6
Recalling also all its previous resolutions, Human Rights Council resolution
21/32 of 28 September 2012,7 previous resolutions of the Council and those of the
Commission on Human Rights on the right to development, in particular
Commission resolution 1998/72 of 22 April 1998 8 on the urgent need to make
further progress towards the realization of the right to development, as set out in the
Declaration on the Right to Development,
Recalling further the outcome of the eleventh session of the Working Group on
the Right to Development of the Human Rights Council, held in Geneva from 26 to
30 April 2010, as contained in the report of the Working Group9 and as referred to in
the report of the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights,10
Recalling the Sixteenth Conference of Heads of State or Government of
Non-Aligned Countries, held in Tehran from 26 to 31 August 2012, and the 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,
Reiterating its continuing support for the New Partnership for Africa’s
Development11 as a development framework for Africa,
Expressing its appreciation for the efforts of the Chair-Rapporteur of the
Working Group on the Right to Development of the Human Rights Council and the
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Resolution 69/2.
See TD/442 and Corr.1 and 2.
7
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/67/53/Add.1), chap. III.
8
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
9
A/HRC/15/23.
10
A/HRC/15/24.
11
A/57/304, annex.
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