The Right to Development

A/HRC/RES/15/25View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

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 2010.

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49 documents · 2000–2026

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2026).

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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8 subjects

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

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14 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Working Group on the Right to Development;³

³A/HRC/15/23.

Takes note with appreciation of the efforts made by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights with regard to the promotion, mainstreaming and realization of the right to development, including the support provided to the Working Group;

Decides:

To continue to act to ensure that its agenda promotes and advances sustainable development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and, in this regard, 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 45 to 47 of its report;

To take note of the work of the high-level task force, including its consolidation of findings and the list of right to development criteria and corresponding operational sub-criteria;⁴

⁴A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2 and Add.1 and 2.

To request the Office of the High Commissioner to seek the views of States Members of the United Nations and relevant stakeholders on the work of the high-level task force and the way forward, taking into consideration the essential features of the right to development, using as reference the Declaration on the Right to Development and resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights, the Council and the General Assembly on the right to development;

To request the Office of the High Commissioner to post on its website all written contributions by Member States and other stakeholders;

To request the Chairperson/Rapporteur of the Working Group, assisted by the Office of the High Commissioner, to prepare two compilations of the submissions received from Governments, groups of Governments and regional groups, as well as the inputs received from other stakeholders, and to present both compilations to the Working Group at its twelfth session;

That following the consideration by the Working Group of the above-mentioned compilations of views, the criteria and corresponding operational sub-criteria, mentioned in paragraph 3 (c) above, once considered, revised and endorsed by the Working Group, 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 the Working Group shall 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 High Commissioner, in consultation with States Members of the United Nations and other relevant stakeholders, to launch preparations for the commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development;

To request the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to take all necessary measures and to allocate adequate resources for the effective implementation of the present resolution;

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

The voting was as follows:

The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its fifteenth session (A/HRC/15/60), chap. I.

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