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3 Jun 2015

Author:
UN Special Rapporteur on rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

Factsheet: FoAA rights & natural resource exploitation

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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 

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