الفريق العامل المعني بالحق في التنمية

This report contains the draft international covenant on the right to development, submitted by the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on the Right to Development, Zamir Akram, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 51/7. In submitting the draft covenant, the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group recommends to the Human Rights Council that it transmit the draft, together with the commentaries, to the General Assembly and that it recommend that the Assembly, as the appropriate forum, convene an intergovernmental conference, under the auspices of the United Nations, with the mandate to consider the draft international covenant and conclude the text of an international legally binding instrument on the right to development as soon as possible.

The addendum 1 to the report A/HRC/54/50 contains the text of the draft international covenant on the right to development together with commentaries

The addendum 2 to the report A/HRC/54/50 contains the consideration of comments and textual proposals made by delegations prior to, during, and pursuant to the twenty-fourth session of the Working Group to aid the elaboration of the draft international covenant on the right to development together with commentaries. In addition, it contains in its annex the draft text in tracked changes, compared with the second revised text of the draft.

This report covers the proceedings of the 24th session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development. During the session, the Working Group continued to review progress in the implementation of the right to development and held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to development and with the Chair of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development. Moreover, it considered and conducted intergovernmental negotiations of the second revised text of the draft convention on the right to development.

In its resolution 48/10, the Human Rights Council stressed the importance of constructive engagement at the twenty-second session of the Working Group, which would continue its consideration of the draft convention on the right to development submitted by the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group, and requested the Chair-Rapporteur to submit a revised draft convention to the Working Group at its twenty-third session.