A/HRC/RES/29/3
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 July 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-ninth session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 2 July 2015
29/3.
Human rights and international solidarity
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming all previous resolutions and decisions adopted by the Commission on
Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the issue of human rights and
international solidarity, including Commission resolution 2005/55 of 20 April 2005 and
Council resolutions 6/3 of 27 September 2007, 7/5 of 27 March 2008, 9/2 of 24 September
2008, 12/9 of 1 October 2009, 15/13 of 30 September 2010, 17/6 of 16 June 2011, 18/5 of
29 September 2011, 21/10 of 27 September 2012, 23/12 of 13 June 2013 and 26/6 of
26 June 2014,
Underlining the fact that the processes of promoting and protecting human rights
should be conducted in conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the
United Nations and international law,
Recalling that, at the World Conference on Human Rights, held in June 1993, States
pledged to cooperate with each other in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to
development, and stressed that the international community should promote effective
international cooperation for the realization of the right to development and the elimination
of obstacles to development,
Reaffirming the fact that article 4 of the Declaration on the Right to Development
states that sustained action is required to promote more rapid development of developing
countries and, as a complement to the efforts of developing countries, effective
international cooperation is essential in order to provide these countries with the
appropriate means and facilities to foster their comprehensive development,
Recognizing that the attention paid to the importance of international solidarity as a
vital component of the efforts of developing countries to realize the right to development of
their peoples and to promote the full enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights by
everyone has been insufficient, and in this context, reaffirming the critical relevance of
international solidarity to the post-2015 development agenda,
Reaffirming the fact that the widening gap between economically developed and
developing countries is unsustainable and that it impedes the realization of human rights in
the international community and makes it all the more imperative for every nation,
according to its capacities, to make the maximum possible effort to close this gap,
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