In 1986, the United Nations General Assembly approved the Right to Development. It explicitly referred to the need for a new international economic order. The idea of a new international economic order, first mentioned in UN resolutions in 1974, now appeared in the lexicon of human rights. The Sustainable Development Goals, defined in 2015 and set to be achieved by 2030, represent a clear human rights-based approach to development and today constitute a widely publicized roadmap for development. The objective of this text is to shortly analyze, through some of these Sustainable Development Goals, whether the idea of a new international economic order remains on the United Nations agenda and how. The conclusion is that the new economic order is only vaguely mentioned, in turn many of the objectives of the right to development resurface in the sustainable development goals. This may be taken as a demonstration of the failure of the United Nations to achieve them over at least the last forty years.