A/RES/74/152
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399/Add.2)]
74/152.
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 Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 2 and the
International Covenant on Civil and Political 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,
Emphasizing the urgent need to make the right to development a reality for
everyone,
Stressing the importance of the World Conference on Human Rights, held in
Vienna in 1993, and that the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action 3
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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