Information Materials

• The Right to Development and the Sustainable Development Goals
• Introduction to the Right to Development
• Frequently Asked Questions, Fact sheet No.37
• UN Declaration on the RTD at 25
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• Background on the Right to Development
• Landmarks in the recognition of development as a human right
  Chronology of major developments before and after the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Right to Development

• The Right to Development at a glance
• The Right to Development – Framework for achieving the MDGs
• The Right to Development and International Cooperation
• The Right to Development and Indigenous Peoples
• The Right to Development and Gender 
• The Right to Development and Disability
• The Right to Development and Children and Youth
• The Right to Development and Peace
• The Right to Development and Taxation

Online learning course

Basic Introduction to the Right to Development
In collaboration with OHCHR, UNITAR has developed this e-platform learning course dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Declaration on the Right to Development. The course has four modules (1) Introduction (2) Historical background (3) United Nations mechanisms on the Right to Development and (4) The Right to Development responds to contemporary challenges, each followed by short quizzes. The course is free and available to all interested participants. 

Video

• The Right to Development, for Everyone, Everywhere -
• Development is a Human Right
• Right to Development Anniversary video
  Produced for the OHCHR by Dev.TV – a media company which produces news items and documentary features about development issues for broadcast by television companies worldwide
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Posters

"Development is a Human Right" posters in 6 UN official languages

UN Declaration on the Right to development (articles); available in six official UN languages
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Quote from the High Commissioner for Human Rights; available in six official UN languages
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Publications

A booklet containing the text of the Declaration on the Right to Development (each article illustrated by a photo); available in six official UN languages
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A book “Realizing the Right to Development: Essays in Commemoration of 25 Years of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development

In commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development, this UN publication presents for the first time a wide range of in-depth analytical studies by more than 30 international experts covering the context, meaning and application of this right and its potential to shape human rights and development policy and practice.  Together they support the concept of an enabling environment for development that would ensure freedom from want and freedom from fear for all people.

A pamphlet introducing OHCHR's book “Realizing the Right to Development: Essays in Commemoration of 25 Years of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development”
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