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7 Jul 2017

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UN Human Rights Council

UN Human Rights Council renews mandate of Working Group on business & human rights

"Business and human rights: Mandate of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises", 19 June 2017

...[The UN Human Rights Council] decides to extend the mandate of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises...for a period of three years... [The Council] decides that the Working Group shall guide the work of the Forum...and invites the Working Group to chair the Forum and submit a report on the proceedings and thematic recommendations of the Forum for consideration by the Human Rights Council...[They also] welcome that the central theme of the 2017 Forum on Business and Human Rights is “Realizing access to Remedy” as it can allow taking stock and identifying further ways forward in the implementation of the third pillar of the Guiding Principles...[and] requests the Working Group...give due consideration to the implementation of the Guiding Principles in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.