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3.
States shall ensure that the procedures and outcomes under international agreements
and standards are fully consistent with their human rights obligations in matters pertaining
to, inter alia, international trade, investment, finance, taxation, climate change adaptation
and mitigation, environmental protection, humanitarian relief and assistance, development
cooperation and security.
4.
States shall take appropriate, transparent and inclusive action to ensure the
meaningful participation of individuals and peoples in decision-making processes at the
national, bilateral, regional and international levels on matters that affect their lives.
5.
States shall adopt and effectively implement policies and programmes targeted at the
promotion and protection of, inter alia, the rich variety and diversity that exist in the
cultures of individuals and peoples who make up international society, and the reciprocal
influences they exert on each other.
Article 8
1.
States shall establish an appropriate institutional framework and adopt domestic
measures, legislative or otherwise, to give effect to the right to international solidarity and
to ensure that actions and omissions by States and non-State actors do not adversely affect
the exercise and full enjoyment of human rights.
2.
States shall abstain from impeding access to actual and virtual spaces where
individuals and peoples can freely exchange information without unnecessary restrictions.
Article 9
1.
States shall implement a human rights-based approach to international cooperation
and all partnerships in responding to global challenges such as those relating to:
(a)
Peace and security, global governance, environmental protection and climate
justice, humanitarian relief and assistance, trade, foreign debt, official development
assistance, social protection, education, health, and food and nutritional security;
(b)
Participatory global governance where structural inequalities are addressed;
(c)
Building equality in power relations between women and men in national,
regional and global decision-making and leadership positions;
(d)
Creating a global enabling environment for sustainable development that is
centred on individuals and peoples and grounded in intergenerational equity.
2.
States shall establish and implement appropriate mechanisms to ensure that
international cooperation is based on equal partnerships, mutual commitments and
obligations, without conditionalities that hinder the exercise and enjoyment of human
rights, where partner States are accountable to each other, as well as to their respective
constituents at the national level, for the outcomes of policies, strategies and performance,
whether at the bilateral, regional or international level, which shall be in accordance with
international human rights principles and standards.
3.
States shall give effect to the establishment of a fair, inclusive, participatory and
human rights-based international trade and investment regime where all States shall act in
conformity with their obligation to ensure that no international trade agreement or policy to
which they are a party has any adverse impact on the protection, promotion and fulfilment
of human rights both within and beyond their borders.
4.
International cooperation shall be aimed at enabling each State to fulfil its primary
responsibility to devote maximum available resources to the implementation of its human
rights obligations at the national level, both in the immediate fulfilment of its core
obligations as a priority, and in the concrete, deliberate and targeted progressive realization
of all human rights, including the right to development.
Article 10
Nothing in the present declaration shall be construed as being contrary to the
purposes and principles of the United Nations, or as implying that any State, individual or
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