...[T]he [third] day also provided for meaningful interventions on the two main agenda items: preventative measures and access to justice...

The room presented a general consensus around the idea that prevention is key when addressing human rights impacts in the context of business operations...

Voluntary measures to make corporations implement mechanisms to identify, prevent, remedy and account for the human rights impacts of their global operations have proven insufficient. Yesterday's discussion reflects the growing acknowledgement of this dire reality among states. It also illustrated that the different legal developments taking place in some States...

The last two items, covered during the afternoon, were liability and access to justice...

Representatives from communities of different regions, including indigenous peoples and many women, spoke up to make clear that establishing corporate liability is essential and non-optional in order to solve the current and dehumanizing accountability gap...

Access to Justice: agreement that more needs to be done...