Factsheet: FoAA rights & natural resource exploitation
What does the Special Rapporteur recommend?
States: Ensure an enabling environment in which civil society can access relevant information, participate in decision-making, and express opinions freely in the context of natural resource exploitation
States: Meet extraterritorial obligations, particularly by providing access to remedy for victims of violations of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.
States: Enact an international legally-binding instrument on human rights standards for businesses, as proposed by Human Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/26/L.22 to apply to businesses working domestically and internationally
Corporations: Meet obligations to respect internationally accepted human rights in natural resource exploitation activities, including assembly and association rights
Corporations: Implement the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
Corporations: Adhere to international law standards on public participation and free prior and informed consent