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10 Dec 2014

Top 10 business & human rights issues for 2015

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1. Reinforcing Citizen Participation in the Business and Human Rights Agenda, including by Protecting Human Rights Defenders

2. Overcoming Barriers Preventing Access to Effective Remedies for Corporate Related Human Rights Abuses

3. Scaling Up Efforts to Eradicate Forced Labour, Slavery and Trafficking from Services, Manufacturing, and Global Supply Chains

4. Strengthening Trade Union Movements in an Era of Growing Casualisation of Work

5. Protecting the Right to Privacy and Ending Mass Surveillance of Digital Communications

6. Ensuring Corporate Use or Acquisition of Land Does Not Undermine the Rights of Small Farmers and Local Communities

7. Developing Policy and Regulatory Architecture to Tackle Human Rights Abuses Arising from Tax Avoidance and Illicit Financial Flows

8. Combating Sexual Violence in the Workplace

9. Making the Private Sector Role in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) work for Human Rights

10. Strengthening State Approaches to Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, including through National Action Plans