The Right to Development

A/HRC/RES/12/23View PDF

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A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2009.

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49 documents · 2000–2026

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/HRC/RES/63/3	The right to development	3,367	–
2025	A/RES/80/207	The right to development	5,093	–
2025	A/HRC/RES/60/7	The right to development	3,357	–
2024	A/RES/79/170	The right to development	5,367	–
2024	A/HRC/RES/57/19	The right to development	3,234	–

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7 subjects

Development Indicators Guidelines International Instruments Right to Development Standards Sustainable Development Working Groups

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8 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Working Group on the Right to Development (A/HRC/12/28);

Decides:

To continue to act to ensure that its agenda promotes and advances sustainable development and the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and, in this regard, to lead to raising the right to development, as set out in paragraphs 5 and 10 of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, to the same level and on a par with all other human rights and fundamental freedoms;

To endorse the recommendations of the Working Group, as outlined in paragraphs 44 to 46 of its report, which would ensure that the right to development criteria and corresponding operational subcriteria, to be submitted by the task force to the Working Group at its eleventh session in 2010, together with suggestions for further work, address, in a comprehensive and coherent manner, the essential features of the right to development, as defined in the Declaration on the Right to Development, and including the priority concerns of the international community beyond those enumerated in Millennium Development Goal 8;

That, once considered, revised and endorsed by the Working Group, the above-mentioned criteria and corresponding operational subcriteria should be used, as appropriate, in the elaboration of a comprehensive and coherent set of standards for the implementation of the right to development;

That, upon completion of the three phases of the 2008-2010 workplan of the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development, endorsed by the Council in its resolution 9/3, the Working Group will take appropriate steps to ensure respect for and practical application of the above-mentioned standards, which could take various forms, including guidelines on the implementation of the right to development, and evolve into a basis for consideration of an international legal standard of a binding nature, through a collaborative process of engagement;

To request the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to take all necessary measures and to allocate adequate resources for the effective implementation of the present resolution, taking into account the needs for the effective implementation of the recommendations of the Working Group referred to in paragraph 2 (b) above;

Also decides to review the progress of the implementation of the present resolution as a matter of priority at its future sessions.

The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its twelfth session (A/HRC/12/50), chap. I.

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