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21 Sep 2012

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United Nations Human Rights Council

[PDF] Contribution of the United Nations system as a whole to the advancement of the business and human rights agenda and the dissemination and implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

The Human Rights Council...Underscores the need to adopt a coordinated strategic approach to ensure integration of the business and human rights agenda, particularly the Guiding Principles, into all relevant aspects of the work of the United Nations system...Encourages all stakeholders to take into account in their submissions in connection with the universal periodic review the implementation by the State of its duty to protect against human rights abuses by third parties, including business enterprises, as set out in the Guiding Principles...Encourages all relevant entities of the United Nations system...To develop guidance and training relating to the dissemination and implementation of the Guiding Principles...in close collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner and the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises...

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