A/RES/49/183
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Welcoming the convening of the World Summit for Social Development and the Fourth World
Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace in 1995 and the United Nations
Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) in 1996, and affirming that those conferences constitute important
international steps towards the realization of the right to development, within the context of promoting and
protecting all human rights,
Taking note with appreciation of the continuing work of the Working Group on the Right to
Development during its three sessions, held at Geneva, from 8 to 19 November 1993, from 2 to 13 May 1994
and from 3 to 14 October 1994, 7/
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General, 8/ prepared pursuant to General Assembly
resolution 48/130,
1.
Reaffirms the importance of the right to development for every human person and all peoples
in all countries, in particular the developing countries;
2.
Takes note of the comprehensive report of the Secretary-General; 8/
3.
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-first
session a report on the implementation of Commission resolution 1994/21;
4.
Calls upon the Commission on Human Rights to consider carefully the reports of the Working
Group on the Right to Development 7/ and to request the Working Group, in fulfilling its mandate, to continue
to examine and sustain attention to all the various aspects of the right to development, with a view to making
recommendations for enhancing the universal realization of the right to development through, inter alia, the
implementation of the provisions of the Declaration on the Right to Development, reaffirmed by the Vienna
Declaration and Programme of Action;
5.
Requests the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat to continue to be forthcoming in
providing adequate services and logistical support to the Working Group on the Right to Development to ensure
the smooth functioning of its meetings;
6.
Requests the Secretary-General to continue coordination of the various activities with regard to
the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development;
7.
Also requests the Secretary-General to ask the Centre for Human Rights to provide a
programmatic follow-up on the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development, as part of the
efforts to implement the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action;
8.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, within his mandate, to
continue to take steps for the promotion and protection of the right to development by, inter alia, working in
conjunction with the Centre for Human Rights and drawing on the expertise of the funds, programmes and
specialized agencies of the United Nations system related to the field of development;
7/
See E/CN.4/1994/21 and Corr.1, E/CN.4/1995/11 and E/CN.4/1995/27.
8/
A/49/653.
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