A/HRC/RES/27/2
Recognizing that achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including
the Millennium Development Goals, requires effective policy coherence and coordination,
Recognizing also that extreme poverty and hunger are one of the greatest global
threats and require the collective commitment of the international community for its
eradication, pursuant to Millennium Development Goal 1, and therefore calling upon the
international community to contribute towards achieving that goal,
Underlining the imperative need for raising awareness of the progress made, still
existing difficulties and accelerating action towards the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals,
Emphasizing that all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to
development, are universal, indivisible, independent and interrelated,
Underlining that the post-2015 development agenda will need to aim at
strengthening a new, more equitable and sustainable national and international order, as
well as the promotion and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Emphasizing that the right to development should be central to the post-2015
development agenda,
Taking note of the commitment declared by a number of United Nations specialized
agencies, funds and programmes and other international organizations to make the right to
development a reality for all, and in this regard encouraging all relevant bodies of the
United Nations system and other international organizations to mainstream the right to
development into their objectives, policies, programmes and operational activities, as well
as into development and development-related processes, including the follow-up to the
Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries,
Stressing the primary responsibility of States for the creation of national and
international conditions favourable to the realization of the right to development,
Recognizing that Member States should cooperate with each other in ensuring
development and eliminating obstacles to development, that the international community
should promote effective international cooperation, in particular global partnership for
development, for the realization of the right to development and the elimination of
obstacles to development, and that lasting progress towards the implementation of the right
to development requires effective development policies at the national level, as well as
equitable economic relations and a favourable economic environment at the international
level,
Recalling that 2011 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the
Right to Development,
Stressing that, in General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, the
Assembly decided that the responsibility of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights shall be, among others, to promote and protect the realization of the right to
development and to enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations system for
that purpose,
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Takes note of the consolidated report of the Secretary-General and the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to development, 2 which
provided information on the activities undertaken by the Office of the High Commissioner
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A/HRC/27/27.