A/RES/52/136 Page 3 States, organs and organizations of the United Nations system and non-governmental organizations active in this field, Expressing its concern about the lack of participation of developing countries at the global level in the decision-making process on macroeconomic policy issues, with far-reaching impacts on the world economy and with negative implications for the exercise of the right to development in developing countries, Reaffirming the need for action by all States at the national and international levels for the realization of all human rights and the need for relevant evaluation mechanisms to ensure the promotion, encouragement and reinforcement of the principles contained in the Declaration on the Right to Development, Also reaffirming that all States should promote the establishment, maintenance and strengthening of international peace and security and, to that end, should do their utmost to achieve general and complete disarmament under effective international control and to ensure that the resources released by effective disarmament measures are used for comprehensive development, in particular that of developing countries, Noting that aspects of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, adopted by the Conference on 13 September 1994,4 the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, adopted by the Summit on 12 March 1995,5 the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action, adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995,6 and the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, adopted by the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) at Istanbul, Turkey, on 14 June 1996,7 are relevant to the universal realization of the right to development, within the context of promoting and protecting all human rights, Affirming the need to apply a gender perspective in the implementation of the right to development, inter alia, by ensuring that women play an active role in the development process, Expressing concern that, more than ten years after the adoption of the Declaration on the Right to Development, obstacles to the realization of the right to development still persist at both the national and international levels and that new obstacles to the rights stated therein have emerged, including, inter alia, the negative effects of globalization on the right to development, particularly in developing countries, 4 Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 5 Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6-12 March 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II. 6 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II. 7 A/CONF.165/14, chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II. /...