Response and restoration plans and insurance policies on the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) pandemic from the angle of the precise to growth on the nationwide degree – Report of the Particular Rapporteur on the precise to growth (A/HRC/51/30) [EN/AR/RU/ZH] – World

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Human Rights Council
Fifty-first session
12 September–7 October 2022
Agenda merchandise 3
Promotion and safety of all human rights, civil,
political, financial, social and cultural rights,
together with the precise to growth

Abstract

Within the current report, submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to Council resolutions 33/14 and 42/23, the Particular Rapporteur on the precise to growth, Saad Alfarargi, examines response to and restoration from the coronavirus illness (COVID19) pandemic from the angle of the precise to growth on the nationwide degree, highlights good practices and critiques challenges in guaranteeing the significant participation of rights holders. The Particular Rapporteur concludes the report with suggestions on integrating the precise to growth into such plans.

I. Actions of the Particular Rapporteur

1. The current report, submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to Council resolutions 33/14 and 42/23, outlines the actions undertaken by the Particular Rapporteur on the precise to growth since September 2021.

2. In October 2021, the Particular Rapporteur offered a thematic report back to the Normal Meeting, during which he examined the connection between the precise to growth and local weather change from a global perspective. Within the report, he famous the challenges that growing international locations proceed to face resulting from restricted participation, entry to info, accountability and cures, funding and know-how. In his view there should be a simply transition away from a carbon-based economic system in the direction of one that’s based mostly on sustainable growth, the safety of human rights and the precept that nobody can be left behind. This future can solely be achieved by understanding the Paris Settlement within the context of the precise to growth and fairness between the worldwide North and South, during which the worldwide North assists the worldwide South in constructing a climate-resilient economic system. Such an economic system would require important funding for growing international locations in order that they will adapt to local weather change and turn into equal companions in mitigating greenhouse gasoline emissions. In his report, the Particular Rapporteur additionally supplied sensible suggestions geared to assembly local weather change challenges in 4 key areas: worldwide cooperation; participation and entry to info; accountability and cures; and monetary obligations for help to deal with local weather change.

3. In October 2021, the Particular Rapporteur additionally issued a coverage temporary on local weather motion and the precise to growth, presenting a abstract of his suggestions and inspiring all international locations taking part within the twenty-sixth session of the Convention of the Events to the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather in Glasgow, United Kingdom of Nice Britain and Northern Eire, from 31 October to 12 November 2021, to combine these suggestions into their decision-making.

4. On 14 October 2021, the Particular Rapporteur, along with 5 different mandate holders, despatched a complete of 44 letters to member States of the Group of Seven and the Group of 20, the European Union and the World Commerce Group, together with to representatives of pharmaceutical corporations that had been both already producing or had been getting ready to provide coronavirus illness (COVID-19) vaccines and to their residence States. The letters referred to as for pressing collective motion to realize equal and common entry to COVID-19 vaccines.

5. On 3 November 2021, the Particular Rapporteur participated within the fourth session of the Knowledgeable Mechanism on the Proper to Improvement.

6. On 4 December 2021, the Particular Rapporteur issued a public assertion on the event of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on the Proper to Improvement, joined by 27 members of the Knowledgeable Mechanism on the Proper to Improvement and particular procedures mandate holders, calling for fast implementation of the commitments made by international locations on the twenty-sixth session of the Convention of the Events to the United Nations Framework Conference.

7. In its resolutions 33/14 establishing and 42/23 extending the mandate of the Particular Rapporteur, the Human Rights Council requested that he contribute to and supply his views on the work of the Working Group on the Proper to Improvement. The Particular Rapporteur held interactive dialogues with the members of the Working Group throughout its twenty-second session, on 22 November 2021, and its twenty-third session, on 16 Could 2022, offering an replace on his deliberate work and interesting in a dialogue concerning the implementation of the precise to growth. In the midst of these dialogues, he additionally pressured the challenges and alternatives confronted by the Working Group in the course of the negotiations on the draft legally binding instrument on the precise to growth, inspired Member States to have interaction in constructive dialogue and famous the quite a few constructive points of the draft.

8. The Particular Rapporteur participated in a number of on-line occasions associated to the precise to growth, notably in two casual discussions organized by the Motion of NonAligned Nations in October 2021 and April 2022. He additionally participated within the first World Residents’ Meeting, held in October 2021 on the event of the twenty-sixth session of the Convention of the Events to the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change, and in a convention organized by the Nationwide Human Rights Fee of Mexico in December 2021 on the challenges to and prospects of the human proper to growth. In April 2022, the Particular Rapporteur delivered an announcement to the World Financial institution-Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF) Civil Society Coverage Discussion board at a session dedicated to the IMF gender technique; participated in an internet facet occasion of the Financial and Social Council Discussion board on Financing for Improvement Observe-up, entitled “Filling the personal finance regulatory hole: shifting past the de-risking State”; and took half within the assembly on the human proper to science, organized inside the framework of the Geneva Human Rights Dialogues organized by the United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO).

9. In July 2022, the Particular Rapporteur will take part within the high-level political discussion board on sustainable growth, the United Nations central platform for follow-up and assessment of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Improvement and the Sustainable Improvement Objectives.