“We, heads of State and Government, … are committed to making the right to development a reality for everyone and to freeing the entire human race from want.” UN Millennium Declaration

Statements and opinion editorials

The Secretary-General

• Secretary-General Says Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Declaration Provides Occasion for Recommitting to Making People-centred Development Reality
  
  
• Remarks by the Secretary-General at General Assembly Event to commemorate 25th Anniversary of the Right to Development
  8 November 2011 

The High Commissioner for Human Rights

• The 13th session of the intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development
  Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  7 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• UNCTAD XIII, Doha, Qatar, 21-26 April 2012
  Open letter by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to the President of UNCTAD XIII
Also see UN Human Rights chief sends message to Conference President


• Human Rights Council panel on human rights mainstreaming
  Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 28 February 2012, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• The Relevance of the Right to Development in the Context of Global Challenges
  Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  Panel discussion organised by the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the UN Office at Geneva, on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• The 12th session of the intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development
  Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  14 November 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• The Right to Development at 25: Policy Coherence in the Global Partnership for Development
  Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  UN General Assembly Event to commemorate 25th Anniversary of the Right to Development
  8 November 2011, New-York
  
  
• The way forward in the realization of the right to development: between policy and practice
  Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  HRC panel “The way forward in the realization of the right to development: between policy and practice”, 14 September 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• “Let us ensure that development for some is not to the detriment of the human rights of others” – Pillay
  Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay for 9 August, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, 5 August 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• The right to development and global partnership for development
  Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  ECOSOC special event on the right to development and global partnership for development,
  12 July 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• No real development without human rights
  Opinion editorial by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  The Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV)
  9-13 May, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
  
  
• 25 years of the right to development - Achievements and Challenges
  Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
  International Conference, 24-25 February 2011, Berlin, Germany
  
  
• UNITAR High Level Panel on Human Rights and Trade
  Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  27 September 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
   

OHCHR representatives

• Human Rights and International Solidarity
  Statement by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
  Expert workshop on human rights and international solidarity,
  7-8 June 2012, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• Update on anniversary activities
  Statement by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
  12th session of the Working Group on the Right to Development,
  14 November 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
  


• What is the Right to Development?
  Presentation by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  IPU seminar in cooperation with OHCHR, 20 October, Bern, Switzerland
  
  
• The Right to Development: Constraints and Perspectives
  Statement by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
  The OIC and NAM roundtable, 19 October 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• The 2011 Social Forum of the Human Rights Council
  Statement by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  3 October 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• The Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries
  Statement by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
  10 May 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
  

United Nations system agencies and partner organizations

• Joint statement on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development endorsed by FAO, ILO, IOM, UNAIDS, OHCHR, UNCTAD, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, UNHCR, UN-HABITAT, UNOPS, UNFPA, UN Women, WFP, WHO, WIPO and WTO

United Nations human rights mechanisms

• “Financial credit for homeownership is not an adequate solution for the world’s poor” – UN expert on housing
  
  
• Underwrite the poor like we underwrote the banks” – UN experts propose Global Fund for Social Protection
  
  
• G-8/EU: “A global financial transaction tax, a human rights imperative now more than ever”
  A joint statement by experts on extreme poverty, food, business, foreign debt and international solidarity
  
  
• The 25th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development
  Joint statement by Chairpersons of the UN human rights treaty bodies
  

• The Importance and Relevance of the Right to Development
  Statement by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
  20 May 2011, Geneva, Switzerland