"ICC statement on the subject of Business and Human Rights at the 29th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council June 2015"

The International Coordinating Committee of NHRIs [National Human Rights Institutions] (ICC) reiterates its support for the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) and the mandate of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. The ICC is concerned that, in spite of the Human Rights Council’s unanimous endorsement in 2011 of the UNGPs, human rights abuses resulting from business activities continue to escalate in many contexts across the world, in particular in the context of the economic crisis. ...Accordingly, the ICC reiterates its call for all states, transnational corporations, and other business enterprises to scale up their efforts by an order of magnitude to meet their respective duties and responsibilities in accordance with the UNGPs...[T]he ICC would like to emphasize the following: