联合国人权事务高级专员沃尔克·蒂尔克（Volker Türk）在发展权政府间工作组第25届会议上的发言如下：
各位阁下，
尊敬的各位代表，
尊敬的与会者：
我很高兴有机会在发展权政府间工作组发言。我们的世界正处于危机之中，而发展权有助于促成影响深远有效的解决方案。
冲突正在肆虐，对人权、保护平民和数百万人的发展造成了严重损失。
贫困和饥饿正在失控，目前有3.09亿人面临严重的粮食不安全问题。
在大流行期间，经济差距急剧扩大，而且仍然居高不下。根据世界不平等数据库，世界上最富有的0.01%和最贫穷的50%之间的差距现在比2008年高出50%。
沉重的债务正在给最贫穷的国家带来前所未有的代价，在教育、获得优质医疗保健和社会保障等关键领域，巨大的障碍继续阻碍人们享有自己的权利。
简言之，可持续发展议程——一个旨在为地球上的每个社区带来大规模变革性利益的现实可行的计划——正在遭到破坏，对全人类产生深远的负面影响。到2030年，似乎有可能有近6亿人面临长期营养不良，而不是结束饥荒。
与此同时，国际合作与团结正受到冲击——由于争端、缺乏信任以及未能履行我们对彼此和子孙后代的共同责任。气候变化正在加速，进一步助长了尚未得到充分解决的三重地球危机。新技术的开发和部署不受监管，没有全球架构来管理和应对其影响，也严重威胁到人权。
这些都是前所未有、环环相扣的危机——每一场危机都是可以预防的，而且联合起来就是一场灾难。在这方面，发展权在今天尤为突出，无论是在其广泛的影响范围方面，还是在它所促进的有效解决办法方面。
发展权包括个人和人民有意义和自由地参与发展的权利，包括关于发展的决定，以及公平地从发展中受益的权利。
它建立在人人享有平等机会以及经济资源和机会的公平分配之上——包括传统上被剥夺权利的人以及经常被排在后面的国家。
这一愿景要求我们正视和纠正系统性的不公正、剥削和镇压。
发展权在建设一个更和平、更安全、更公正、更慷慨和更繁荣的世界方面发挥着至关重要的作用。在促进真正的包容和惠及所有人的发展方面，它深刻地滋养了可持续发展议程，并清楚地表明，将发展与人权分开的旧二分法是完全错误的。相反，92%的可持续发展目标与人权和劳工标准有着内在的联系。
此外，发展权为人权经济提供了不可或缺的基础，在这种经济中，财政和预算制度优先考虑实现公民、政治、经济、社会和文化权利；发展权；以及享有清洁、健康和可持续环境的权利——包括确保高额债务偿还不会减少对权利的重要投资。人权高专办的《愿景声明》强调了这些要点。
在四个月的时间里，未来峰会为世界各国领导人提供了一个千载难逢的机会，以制定更有效、更可持续的集体路线。作为这项工作的一部分，人权高专办致力于尽一切可能确保人权原则推动强有力的改革行动，包括改革国际金融架构。必须消除其有利于富裕国家和损害人权的系统性偏见。全球融资结构必须帮助各国政府优先考虑对我们所有人都至关重要的社会保护、可持续发展和气候行动。
各位阁下，
增强更有效地落实发展权的势头对我们的未来至关重要。
政府间工作组为拟订《发展权利国际公约（草案）》作出了显著努力，该公约草案目前已提交大会审议。人权高专办将继续支持会员国之间的讨论，我鼓励所有与会者真诚地为讨论作出贡献，不发表分裂言论，将党派政治问题搁置一旁。
在危机普遍存在的背景下，我们都必须努力理解和包容彼此的观点，展示团结和共同责任。
我祝愿你们的讨论取得丰硕成果。
谢谢。
英文原文
Right to development a key solution to a world in crisis, says High Commissioner
DELIVERED BY
Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
AT
25th session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development
Excellencies,
Distinguished delegates,
Dear participants,
I am glad to have this opportunity to address the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development. Our world is in crisis – and the right to development can contribute to far-reaching, effective solutions.
Conflicts are raging, with a profound toll on human rights, on the protection of civilians, and development for millions of people.
Poverty and hunger are spiralling out of control, with 309 million people now facing acute levels of food insecurity.
Economic disparities shot up during the pandemic, and they remain perilously high. According to the World Inequality Database, the gap between the richest 0.01% of the world and the poorest 50% is now 50% higher than it was in 2008.
Crushing debt is imposing unprecedented costs on the poorest nations, and in crucial areas such as education, access to quality healthcare and social protection, massive obstacles continue to impede people's enjoyment of their rights.
In short, the Sustainable Development Agenda – a realistic, realisable plan for massive, transformative benefit to every community on Earth – is being shattered, with profoundly negative consequences for all humanity. Instead of ending famine by 2030, it seems likely that by then, almost 600 million people will face chronic undernourishment.
Meanwhile, international cooperation and solidarity are being battered – by disputes; by an absence of trust; and by the failure to act on our shared responsibility to each other, and to future generations. Climate change is accelerating, further fuelling a triple planetary crisis that is not being adequately addressed. The unregulated development and deployment of new technologies, with no global architecture to manage and address their impact, also gravely threatens human rights.
These are unprecedented and interlocking crises – each of them preventable, and together, a catastrophe. In this context, the right to development is especially salient today, both in its broad reach and in terms of the effective solutions that it promotes.
The right to development encompasses the right of individuals and peoples to participate meaningfully and freely in development – including decisions about development – and to benefit, fairly, from development.
It rests on the imperative of equal opportunities for all people, and the equitable distribution of economic resources and opportunities – including for people who are traditionally disempowered, as well as for countries that are frequently pushed behind.
This vision requires us to confront and redress systematic injustice, exploitation and repression.
The right to development plays a crucial role in building a more peaceful, safer, more just, more generous and more prosperous world. In fostering genuine inclusion, with development that benefits everyone, it has profoundly nourished the Sustainable Development Agenda – and makes it clear that the old dichotomy that holds development as somehow separate from human rights is entirely false. On the contrary, 92% of the Sustainable Development Goals are intrinsically linked to human rights and labour standards.
In addition, the right to development provides the indispensable foundation for the human rights economy – an economy in which fiscal and budget systems prioritize the realisation of rights – civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights; the right to development; and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment – including by ensuring that high debt repayments do not subtract from vital investments in rights. My Office’s Vision Statement emphasises these points.
In four months' time, the Summit of the Future provides a once-in-a-generation opportunity for world leaders to chart a more effective and more sustainable collective course. As part of this, my Office is committed to doing everything possible to ensure that human rights principles drive strong action for reforms – including reform of the international financial architecture. Its systemic bias in favour of rich countries, and to the detriment of rights, must be eliminated. Global financing structures must help governments to prioritize the social protections, sustainable development and climate action that are essential to us all.
Excellencies,
Increased momentum for more effective implementation of the right to development is important to our future.
The Intergovernmental Working Group has made notable efforts to develop a Draft International Covenant on the Right to Development, which is currently before the General Assembly. My Office will continue to support discussions among Member States, and I encourage all participants to contribute to discussions in good faith, without divisive rhetoric, setting aside issues of partisan politics.
In a context of pervasive crisis, we must all seek to understand and accommodate each others' views, and to demonstrate solidarity and shared responsibility.
I wish you fruitful discussions.
Thank you.
