A/HRC/RES/57/19 Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 54/18, by which it submitted to the General Assembly a draft international covenant on the right to development for its consideration, negotiation and subsequent adoption, Reaffirming Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-Holders of the Human Rights Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that mandate holders shall discharge the duties of their mandates in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto, 1. Reaffirms its commitment to effectively integrate the right to development into its work and that of its mechanisms in a systematic and transparent manner; 2. Acknowledges the urgent need to strive for greater acceptance, operationalization and the 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. Also acknowledges the contribution of civil society actors and other stakeholders to the implementation of the right to development, especially at the grass-roots level; 4. Encourages States and other relevant stakeholders to incorporate the right to development into the design, financing and implementation of cooperation processes; 5. Recalls the consolidated report of the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to development;3 6. Recognizes that the full-day high-level meeting on the promotion and protection of the right to development, as a celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development held at the fifty-second session of the Human Rights Council, presented a significant opportunity for the international community to demonstrate and reiterate its unequivocal commitment to the right to development, recognizing the high profile it deserves and redoubling its efforts to implement this right; 7. Recalls the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the high-level meeting commemorating the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development;4 8. 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; 9. Also requests the High Commissioner to take concrete measures in the fulfilment of his mandated responsibility, including through advocacy, research, regional technical support, capacity-building at the regional level and strengthening partnerships, and to enhance support for the promotion and protection 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; 10. Urges the Office of the High Commissioner, in the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development, to ensure balanced, efficient and visible allocation of both financial and human resources to the existing mechanisms within the Office, including the Expert Mechanism on 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 3 4 4 A/HRC/54/38. A/HRC/54/45.