The Contribution of Development to the Enjoyment of All Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/59/19View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A document 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 2025.

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5 versions · 2017–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/HRC/RES/59/19	The contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights	1,654	53%Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/53/28	The contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights	1,825	63%Compare
2021	A/HRC/RES/47/11	The contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights	1,351	64%Compare
2019	A/HRC/RES/41/19	The contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights	1,222	27%Compare
2017	A/HRC/RES/35/21	The contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights	512	–

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 20	Human rights	433
	Subprogramme 1	Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis	108

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 20	Human rights	433	—
	Subprogramme 1	Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis	108	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Development Human Rights International Financial Institutions Poverty Mitigation Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the significant contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights by all, and also that the three pillars of the United Nations – peace and security, development and human rights – are equally important, interlinked and mutually reinforcing;

Calls upon all States to promote inclusive and sustainable development, to enable better enjoyment of human rights, to achieve gender equality and to promote equality of opportunity for development;

Also calls upon all States to realize inclusive and sustainable development, including the comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

Encourages all States to spare no effort to promote inclusive and sustainable development while respecting, protecting, promoting and fulfilling fundamental freedoms and human rights, including the right to development;

Emphasizes the importance for the entire population of each State to benefit from inclusive and sustainable development, and calls upon States to ensure that efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda for all, by reaching all its Goals and targets, are strengthened and accelerated in this decade of action for building more sustainable, peaceful, just, equitable, inclusive and resilient societies where no one is left behind;

Reaffirms the commitment of all States to ending poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including by eradicating extreme poverty, and emphasizes that eradicating poverty, including extreme poverty, is an indispensable requirement for sustainable development and an overarching objective of the 2030 Agenda and the Pact for the Future;

Welcomes and appreciates the efforts made by States, international organizations and other stakeholders to eradicate poverty, as well as the remarkable progress made in this field, which is of significant importance for the enjoyment of human rights, and calls for enhanced international cooperation and exchanges regarding poverty eradication;

Calls upon States and the United Nations system, including its funds and programmes and specialized agencies, in accordance with their mandates, to continue to mobilize resources to carry out development cooperation and to assist States, particularly developing and the least developed countries, upon their request, in promoting inclusive and sustainable development;

Encourages States, relevant United Nations bodies and other stakeholders to take the 2030 Agenda into account when delivering technical assistance and capacity-building, as requested by the countries concerned, in the field of human rights;

Invites relevant United Nations human rights mechanisms and procedures to continue to take into account the role of development in promoting and protecting human rights when fulfilling their mandates, and to incorporate a development perspective into their work;

Encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to reinforce its work and initiatives on fighting poverty and addressing inequalities in the context of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, which contributes to the enjoyment of all human rights;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a comprehensive report on the impact of conditionalities by international financial institutions on human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights, in which it considers challenges, best practices and actionable solutions, and to submit the report to the Human Rights Council at its sixty-fourth session;

Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner, when preparing the above-mentioned report, to seek input from experts from diverse geographic regions, including from States, relevant intergovernmental organizations, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, relevant special procedures, the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, the treaty bodies, national human rights institutions, academia and civil society representatives;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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