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.