A/RES/61/169 Stressing that poverty eradication is one of the critical elements in the promotion and realization of the right to development and that poverty is a multifaceted problem that requires a multifaceted and integrated approach in addressing economic, political, social, environmental and institutional dimensions at all levels, especially in the context of the millennium development goal of halving, by 2015, the proportion of the world’s people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, Endorses the conclusions and recommendations adopted by consensus by 1. the Working Group on the Right to Development of the Commission on Human Rights at its seventh session,8 and calls for their immediate, full and effective implementation by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and other relevant actors; Recognizes the relevance of the decisions contained in Human Rights 2. Council resolution 1/46 to renew the mandate of the Working Group and to request the Working Group to meet in the first three months of 2007; Also recognizes the relevance of the request of the Human Rights 3. Council to the high-level task force on the right to development to meet before the end of 2006 with a view to implementing the relevant recommendations contained in the report on the seventh session of the Working Group; Emphasizes the relevant provisions of General Assembly resolution 4. 60/251 of 15 March 2006 establishing the Human Rights Council, and, in this regard, calls upon the Council: (a) To promote and advance sustainable development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals; (b) To agree on a programme that will lead to the elevation of the right to development to the same level, in order that it may be on a par with them, as all other human rights and fundamental freedoms elaborated in the human rights instruments; Notes with appreciation that the high-level task force, at its second 5. meeting, examined millennium development goal 8, on developing a global partnership for development, and suggested criteria for its periodic evaluation with the aim of improving the effectiveness of global partnership with regard to the realization of the right to development; 10 Stresses the importance of the core principles contained in the 6. conclusions of the Working Group at its third session, 11 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; Also stresses that it is important that the high-level task force and the 7. Working Group, in the discharge of their mandates, take into account the need: (a) To promote the democratization of the system of international governance in order to increase the effective participation of developing countries in international decision-making; _______________ 10 11 See E/CN.4/2005/WG.18/TF/3. E/CN.4/2002/28/Rev.1, sect. VIII.A. 3