A/HRC/RES/30/28
1.
Takes note of the consolidated report of the Secretary-General and the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to development;3
2.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to submit to the
Human Rights Council an annual report on its activities, including on inter-agency
coordination within the United Nations system, that have direct relevance to the promotion
and the realization of the right to development;
3.
Urges the High Commissioner to pursue his efforts, in fulfilment of his
mandated responsibility, to enhance support for the promotion and the 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;
4.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner, in the implementation of the
Declaration on the Right to Development, to take sufficient measures to ensure balanced
and visible allocation of resources and due attention to ensure visibility of the right to
development by identifying and implementing tangible projects dedicated to the right to
development, and to provide regular updates to the Council in this regard;
5.
Recognizes the need for renewed efforts towards intensifying deliberations in
the Working Group to fulfil, at the earliest, its mandate as established by the Commission
on Human Rights in its resolution 1998/72 of 22 April 1998 and the Human Rights Council
in its resolution 4/4;
6.
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;
7.
Takes note with appreciation of the oral update given by the ChairRapporteur of the Working Group on its sixteenth session;
8.
Welcomes the newly elected Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group and
commends him for his able stewardship in guiding the deliberations of its sixteenth session,
and appreciates all the work accomplished by the outgoing Chair-Rapporteur, including the
draft framework presented at the sixteenth session of the Working Group;4
9.
Also welcomes the commencement of the second reading of the draft criteria
and corresponding operational subcriteria;
10.
Recalls that the Working Group continues its mandate and requests the
Chair-Rapporteur to prepare a document containing a set of standards for consideration by
the Working Group at its seventeenth session to implement the right to development based
on relevant United Nations resolutions and documents, including the Declaration on the
Right to Development, relevant international conventions and decisions as well as
internationally agreed development goals and United Nations resolutions, in consultation
with Member States, relevant international organizations and other stakeholders;
11.
Also recalls that the above-mentioned document would be prepared without
prejudice to the ongoing discussions on the criteria and operational subcriteria, in the
context of which the Working Group shall complete its second reading at its seventeenth
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A/HRC/30/22.
See A/HRC/WG.2/16/2, annex.
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