Amnesty International, the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ), The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Corporate Responsibility Coalition (CORE) and Sherpa appreciate this new opportunity to provide comments and suggestions on the Draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member States on human rights and business of 22 August 2014 (the Recommendation). We would like to draw your attention to the following comments in advance of the forthcoming meeting of the Drafting Group on Human Rights and Business on 24 - 26 September 2014. We have provided alternative formulations with regard to some of the provisions highlighted below and hope to be able to suggest alternative language with regard to other provisions during the forthcoming meeting. The organisations would like to highlight in particular thefollowing key recommendations...