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2.
Acknowledges the need to strive for greater acceptance, operationalization and
realization of the right to development at the international level while urging all States to
undertake at the national level the necessary policy formulation and to institute the measures
required for the implementation of the right to development as an integral part of all human
rights and fundamental freedoms;
3.
Stresses that South-South cooperation is a complement to North-South
cooperation, and hence should not result in the reduction of North-South cooperation or
hamper progress in fulfilling existing official development assistance commitments, and
encourages Member States and other relevant stakeholders to incorporate the right to
development into the design, financing and implementation of cooperation processes;
4.
Welcomes the consolidated report of the Secretary-General and the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to development;3
5.
Requests the High Commissioner to continue to submit to the Human Rights
Council an annual report on the activities of the Office of the High Commissioner, including
on inter-agency coordination within the United Nations system that has direct relevance to
the realization of the right to development, and to provide an analysis, taking into account
existing challenges to the realization of the right to development, and to make
recommendations on how to overcome them and concrete proposals for supporting the
Working Group on the Right to Development in fulfilling its mandate;
6.
Also requests the High Commissioner to take concrete measures in fulfilment
of her mandated responsibility, and to enhance support for the promotion and protection of
the realization of the right to development, taking as reference the Declaration on the Right
to Development, all resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights
and the Human Rights Council on the right to development and agreed conclusions and
recommendations of the Working Group;
7.
Urges the Office of the High Commissioner, in the implementation of the
Declaration on the Right to Development, to ensure balanced and visible allocation of both
financial and human resources to the existing mechanisms within the Office, including the
Expert Mechanism of the Right to Development and the Special Rapporteur on the right to
development, for the realization of the right to development, also to ensure the visibility of
the right to development by identifying and implementing tangible projects dedicated to the
right to development, in collaboration with the Expert Mechanism and the Special
Rapporteur, and to provide regular updates to the Human Rights Council in this regard;
8.
Reiterates the importance of the core principles contained in the conclusions
of the Working Group at its third session4 that are congruent with the purpose of international
human rights instruments, such as equality, non-discrimination, accountability, participation
and international cooperation, as critical to mainstreaming the right to development at the
national and international levels, and underlines the importance of the principles of equity
and transparency;
9.
Stresses the importance of the realization of the mandate of the Working
Group, and recognizes the need for renewed efforts with a view to overcoming the existing
political impasse within the Working Group so that it may fulfil at the earliest its mandate as
established by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1998/72 and the Human
Rights Council in its resolutions 4/4 and 39/9;
10.
Also stresses the importance of constructive engagement at the twenty-first
session of the Working Group, which will consider the draft legally binding instrument on
the right to development submitted by the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group;
11.
Welcomes the first report of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to
Development,5 and requests the Expert Mechanism to implement the recommendations
contained in its report and in doing so to pay particular attention to the international
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A/HRC/45/21.
See E/CN.4/2002/28/Rev.1.
A/HRC/45/29.