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A/HRC/54/50/Add.2: Draft international covenant on the right to development: consideration of comments and textual proposals. Report by the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on the Right to Development, Zamir Akram (Pakistan)

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The addendum 2 to the report A/HRC/54/50 contains the consideration of comments and textual proposals made by delegations prior to, during, and pursuant to the twenty-fourth session of the Working Group to aid the elaboration of the draft international covenant on the right to development together with commentaries. In addition, it contains in its annex the draft text in tracked changes, compared with the second revised text of the draft.

New treaty would codify right to development

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A woman checks the conditions of plants in a lavender field using her computer in Bulgaria
The right to development is the focus of a new international human rights convention currently being drafted as requested by the Human Rights Council. The Convention on the Right to Development will, among other things, codify the right to free, active and meaningful participation in development and in fair-sharing the benefits from development.