A/RES/68/158. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2013

• Resolution Number: A/RES/68/158
• Year: 2013
• Session: 68th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/68/158

General Assembly Distr.: General

14 February 2014

Sixty-eighth session

Agenda item 69 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/456/Add.2)]

68/158. The right to development

The General Assembly

,

Guided

by the Charter of the United Nations, which expresses, in particular,

the determination to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger

freedom and, to that end, to employ international mechanisms for the promotion of

the economic and social advancement of all peoples,

Recalling

the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

1

as well as the

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

2

and the International Covenant

on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,

2

Recalling also

the outcomes of all the major United Nations conferences and

summits in the economic and social fields,

Recalling further

the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the

General Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986, which confirmed

that the right to development is an inalienable human right and that equality of

opportunity for development is a prerogative both of nations and of individuals who

make up nations, and that the individual is the central subject and beneficiary of

development,

Stressing

that 2013 marks the twentieth anniversary of the World Conference

on Human Rights in Vienna, and that the Vienna Declaration and Programme of

Action

3

reaffirmed the right to development as a universal and inalienable right and

an integral part of fundamental human rights, and the individual as the central

subject and beneficiary of development,

Reaffirming

the objective of making the right to development a reality for

everyone, as set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted by the

General Assembly on 8 September 2000,

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1 Resolution 217 A (III).

2 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

3 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.

4 Resolution 55/2.