Highlights 

• Human Rights Council holds high-level panel to discuss human rights mainstreaming
  
  
• Inequality, not in the name of progress – key UN expert group looks beyond the Millennium Development Goals
  
  
• Council holds panel to commemorate twentieth anniversary of Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
  
  
• The fourteenth session of the Working Group on the Right to Development, 13-17 May 2013


• Towards freedom from fear and want:
  Human rights in the post- 2015 agenda
  Thematic Think Piece by OHCHR

Secretary-General's anniversary message

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development is an occasion to celebrate its visionary promise of people-centred development and to recommit to making this a reality.

Today we are at a decisive moment in history. As calls for change echo across the world, we cannot take refuge in silence. Leaders must respond to the demands of people who seek to build their own future. They should especially work to help women and youth enjoy lives of dignity, equality and opportunity.

Global challenges and crises are interconnected. Economic, social and environmental concerns are inseparable. And human rights are integral to them all. That is why we are placing sustainable development at the top of the international agenda. Next year's United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, will offer a critical opportunity to chart a course to the future we want.

2 December 2011, New York