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The right was first recognized in 1981 in Article 22 of the [[African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights]] as a definitive individual and collective right. Article 22(122) provides that: "All peoples shall have the right to their economic, social and cultural development with due regard to their freedom and identity and in the equal enjoyment of the common heritage of mankind."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Umozurike|first=U. O.|date=1983|title=The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2202548|journal=The American Journal of International Law|volume=77|issue=4|pages=902–912|doi=10.2307/2202548|issn=0002-9300}}</ref>
The right to development was subsequently proclaimed by the [[United Nations]] in 1986 in the "Declaration on the Right to Development," which was adopted by the [[United Nations General Assembly]] resolution 41/128.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sengupta|first=Arjun|date=2002|title=On the Theory and Practice of the Right to Development|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20069637|journal=Human Rights Quarterly|volume=24|issue=4|pages=837–889|issn=0275-0392}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sengupta|first=Arjun|date=2000|title=Realizing the Right to Development|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-7660.00167|journal=Development and Change|language=en|volume=31|issue=3|pages=553–578|doi=10.1111/1467-7660.00167|issn=1467-7660}}</ref>. The vote took place on the 4th of December 1986. A total of 146 States voted for the resolution with only one State against and 8 abstentions (against: the United States of America; abstaining: Denmark, Finland, the Federal Republic of Germany, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).<ref> https://undocs.org/A/41/PV.97 | page 49</ref>.
The Right to development is a [[group right]] of peoples as opposed to an [[individual right]], and was reaffirmed by the 1993 [[Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action]]. The right to development is now included in the mandate of several UN institutions and offices.
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