September 12, 2018

39th Session of the Human Rights Council Item 3 – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development

“Integral human development and the full exercise of human dignity cannot be imposed.” Disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and groups must be enabled to participate in decision-making mechanisms as dignified agents of their own destiny. This participatory approach will be successful only if it respects the principle of subsidiarity. States and multilateral agencies must reach out to all segments of society, in a “right relationship with all those areas in which human social life develops – friends, communities, towns and cities, schools, business and unions, provinces and nations”.
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