A/72/171 sustainability and the reduction of debt distress; and the adoption and implementation of investment promotion regimes for least developed countries. 52. States are obligated to mobilize resources for the realization of h uman rights, 5 including through international cooperation and assistance. 6 Meeting ODA commitments is key to fulfilling these obligations, but beyond the mere allocation of funding, ODA and all development financing and resource mobilization, including sovereign debt, must be consistent with human rights principles. It should be effective and transparent, distributed in a manner that is participatory and accountable and targeted to the most vulnerable and those most in need. Furthermore, all development financing and resource mobilization must be accomplished in a manner that guarantees equal access and non -discrimination and that seeks to eliminate barriers to access for traditionally excluded groups. As members of international financial institutions or as individual lenders, States must not impose conditions on borrower States that would lead to retrogression on the fulfilment of human rights (A/HRC/20/23, para. 40). 7 53. In the draft declaration, States are urged to cooperate with one another to address key development issues while taking into account their interrelationships and the importance of non-discrimination, emphasizing the need to ensure that international agreements and standards around finance are consistent with human rights obligations (A/HRC/35/35, annex, art. 7). It includes a mandate for a human rights-based approach to international cooperation, including in the global response to foreign debt, sustainable development and investment, and a vision of international cooperation that is targeted above all to the primary responsibility of each State to devote the maximum available resources for the implementation of its human rights obligations (ibid., art. 9). It thus provides a framework for ensuring a human rights-based approach to the finance targets for Sustainable Development Goal 17. 3. Technology and capacity-building 54. Targets 17.6 to 17.9 are concerned with technology, including enhancing international cooperation on science, technology and innovation promoting technology transfer to developing countries, operationalizing the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries, and capacity-building. 55. Human rights standards require that States not allow global intellectual property regimes to interfere with the dissemination of technology that would enable sustainable development and the realization of human rights. Beyond that , new technology for sustainable development should be developed and disseminated in a manner that is equitable and that takes into particular account the needs of the most vulnerable. 56. International cooperation should seek to build the capacity of deve loping countries to fulfil their international human rights obligations and to implement the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as to participate fully and equally in __________________ 5 6 7 10/13 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, art. 2; Convention on the Rights of the Child, art. 4; and Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, art. 4.2. Charter of the United Nations, Articles 55-56; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, arts. 2.1 and 11.2; Convention on the Rights of the Child, art. 4; and Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, art. 32. See also resolution 70/1, para. 44; art. 18 of the articles on responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts (resolution 56/83, annex); Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, general comment No. 8 (1997) on the relationship between economic sanctions and respect for economic, social and cultural rights. 17-12217