The Right to Development

A/HRC/RES/30/28View 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 2015.

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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

Anniversaries Conferences Development Indicators Experts Report Preparation Right to Development Standards Working Groups

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26 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the consolidated report of the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to development;⁴

⁴A/HRC/30/22.

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to submit to the Human Rights Council an annual report on its activities, including on inter-agency coordination within the United Nations system, that have direct relevance to the promotion and the realization of the right to development;

Urges the High Commissioner to pursue his efforts, in fulfilment of his mandated responsibility, to enhance support for the promotion and the protection of the realization 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;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner, in the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development, to take sufficient measures to ensure balanced and visible allocation of resources and due attention to ensure visibility of the right to development by identifying and implementing tangible projects dedicated to the right to development, and to provide regular updates to the Council in this regard;

Recognizes the need for renewed efforts towards intensifying deliberations in the Working Group to fulfil, at the earliest, its mandate as established by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1998/72 of 22 April 1998 and the Human Rights Council in its resolution 4/4;

Acknowledges the need to strive for greater acceptance, operationalization and 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;

Takes note with appreciation of the oral update given by the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on its sixteenth session;

Welcomes the newly elected Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group and commends him for his able stewardship in guiding the deliberations of its sixteenth session, and appreciates all the work accomplished by the outgoing Chair-Rapporteur, including the draft framework presented at the sixteenth session of the Working Group;⁵

⁵See A/HRC/WG.2/16/2, annex.

Also welcomes the commencement of the second reading of the draft criteria and corresponding operational subcriteria;

Recalls that the Working Group continues its mandate and requests the Chair-Rapporteur to prepare a document containing a set of standards for consideration by the Working Group at its seventeenth session to implement the right to development based on relevant United Nations resolutions and documents, including the Declaration on the Right to Development, relevant international conventions and decisions as well as internationally agreed development goals and United Nations resolutions, in consultation with Member States, relevant international organizations and other stakeholders;

Also recalls that the above-mentioned document would be prepared without prejudice to the ongoing discussions on the criteria and operational subcriteria, in the context of which the Working Group shall complete its second reading at its seventeenth session and decide on further action thereafter, with the objective of elaborating a comprehensive and coherent set of standards for the implementation of the right to development;

Acknowledges the need to have the contributions of experts, regrets the low attendance of invited experts from international organizations at the sixteenth session of the Working Group, and in this context urges their broader engagement;

Also acknowledges the recommendation of the Working Group at its sixteenth session to discuss the post-2015 development agenda in the context of the right to development, and urges all relevant United Nations agencies, international organizations, civil society and other stakeholders to contribute actively to these deliberations and the further recommendation of the Working Group to the Office of the High Commissioner;

Decides:

To continue to act to ensure that its agenda promotes and advances sustainable development and the achievement of the remaining Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable 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 adopted at its sixteenth session;

That the Working Group will continue, at its seventeenth session, to accomplish its mandate, including to complete its second reading of the draft right to development criteria and corresponding operational subcriteria and to consider the document containing the draft set of standards requested in paragraph 10 above for 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 comprehensive and coherent set of 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 convene a two-day formal meeting of the Working Group, after the seventeenth session, to consider further and discuss the document containing the draft set of standards requested in paragraph 10 above;

Requests, as part of the activities to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development:

The High Commissioner to seek the views of Member States in preparing a paper on the realization and implementation of the right to development, as elaborated in the Declaration on the Right to Development, in particular its article 4, and submit it to the Working Group for consideration at its seventeenth session;

The General Assembly to consider holding a high-level segment on the right to development during the general debate at its seventy-first session;

Encourages Member States to convene, individually and collectively, events with their own resources for the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development;

Also encourages Member States to pay particular consideration to the right to development in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

Encourages relevant bodies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, including United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies, relevant international organizations, including the World Trade Organization and relevant stakeholders, including civil society organizations, to give due consideration to the right to development in the implementation of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to contribute further to the work of the Working Group, and to cooperate with the High Commissioner in the fulfilment of his mandate with regard to the implementation of the right to development;

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

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