Events
The 18th session of the Working Group on the Right to Development
Date
03 - 07 April 2017
AT
the 36th session of the Human Rights Council
LOCATION
Geneva
Session report
Statements
- Opening statement by the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Opening statement by the Chair-Rapporteur
- Update on the inter-sessional activities undertaken by the Chair-Rapporteur
- Introduction of the report of the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/33/31)
Documentation
- Provisional agenda A/HRC/WG.2/18/1
- Comments and views submitted by Governments, groups of Governments, regional groups and stakeholders on the draft right to development criteria and operational sub-criteria A/HRC/WG.2/18/CRP.1 (English only)
- Human Rights Council resolution on the right to development A/HRC/RES/33/14
- General Assembly resolution on the right to development A/RES/71/192
- Report of the Working Group on the Right to Development on its seventeenth session A/HRC/33/45
- Consolidated report of the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to development, A/HRC/33/31
- Summary report on the panel discussion on the promotion and protection of the right to development as part of the celebrations of the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development A/HRC/33/21
- Standards for the implementation of the right to development - Report of the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on the Right to Development A/HRC/WG.2/17/2
- NAM proposal for standards for the implementation of the right to development A/HRC/WG.2/18/G/1 (English only)
- Written contributions on the work of the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development, including the right to development criteria and operational sub-criteria
Interactive dialogue with experts on the implementation and realization of the right to development, including the implications of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and a possible engagement with the high-level political forum
- Concept note (English only)
- Statements
- Session 1 (morning)
- Mr. Vicente Yu, Deputy Executive Director, Coordinator, Global Governance for Development Programme, The South Centre
The implications of the SDGs for the realization of the right to development - Ms. Flavia Piovesan, Special Secretary for Human Rights at the Ministry of Human Rights of Brazil
A right to development perspective to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals - Mr. Olivier de Schutter, Member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The extraterritorial legal obligations of States and the responsibility of business enterprises for the realization of economic, social and cultural rights - Ms. Maria-Luisa Silva, Director, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
The role of UNDP in the implementation of the SDGs and the right to development - Mr. Richard Kozul-Wright, Director, Divison on Globalisation and Development Strategies of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
From hyperglobalisation to a global new deal: Rethinking the right to development
- Mr. Vicente Yu, Deputy Executive Director, Coordinator, Global Governance for Development Programme, The South Centre
- Session 2 (afternoon)
- Ms. Yoke Ling Chee, Director of Programmes, Third World Network
Financing for development as a means for eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity from the right to development perspective - Mr. Xigen Wang, Professor, Vice-dean of the Law School of Wuhan University
Eradicating poverty and the role of the right to development - Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Coordinator, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad
Climate change, the right to development and the rights of indigenous peoples - Mr. Idriss Jazairy, Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights
Unilateral coercive measures as an obstacle to the realization of the right to development
- Ms. Yoke Ling Chee, Director of Programmes, Third World Network
- Session 1 (morning)