The right to development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

The right to development

Reaffirms the importance of the right to development for all people in all countries; expresses deep concern that the gap between the developed and developing countries remains unacceptably wide; urges States to eliminate all obstacles to development at all levels; reaffirms that international cooperation is a necessity deriving from the recognized mutual interest of all countries; calls upon the international community to address the deepening technological, financial and productive gaps between the developed and some developing countries; reaffirms that, in the full realization of the right to development, the rights to food, clean water, shelter, health and education are essential factors for the political, social, cultural and economic development of all people; recommends proper consideration of the humanitarian effects of sanctions with a view to minimizing those effects; notes the efforts undertaken by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to promote the realization of the right to development; invites the open-ended working group, inter alia, to consider the question of elaborating a convention on the right to deveopment; requests the Secretary-General to continue to inform the Commission on Human Rights and the General Assembly of the activities of the organizations, funds, programmes and specialized agencies of the UN system relating to the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development, as well as obstacles identified in the realization of the right to development.

Adopted 119-10-38, 83rd meeting

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Adopted at the 83rd plenary meeting, 17 Dec. 1999.