This second submission [by ICMM – the mining industry’s leadership group on sustainable development]...sets out a number of high-level recommendations for the SRSG [UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on Human Rights and Business]...[including]: • help focus attention within the overall debate on human rights and business on critical issues such as...how the role of business interacts with this and means of raising the performance of those companies which, for whatever reason, are least advanced on human rights issues; • urge more rapid take-up of existing, human-rights related, multi stakeholder voluntary initiatives...; and • investigate the potential need for strengthened multi-stakeholder initiatives and consensus-building dialogue on...the position of indigenous peoples and how their rights should affect dealings between local communities and extractive companies...; and [on] the problems facing artisanal and small-scale miners...