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10 Aug 2012

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UN Working Group on business & human rights

[PDF] Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises [to UN General Assembly]

The present report provides an analysis of strategic developments in the field of business and human rights since the submission of the report to the Human Rights Council and further outlines projects that the Working Group will develop...This report also sets out initial recommendations...to States, business enterprises and other stakeholders on the dissemination and implementation of the Guiding Principles...[Chapters on:] Embedding of the Guiding Principles in global governance frameworks... Dissemination and implementation of the Guiding Principles...Working Group projects... Forum on Business and Human Rights... Recommendations[:] States and business enterprises should scale up...efforts to implement the Guiding Principles, including...by establishing measurable and transparent indicators to assess...implementation...[They] should take particular care to address the heightened [risks to]...certain groups of rights-holders, so as to ensure that business enterprises identify and address potential and actual adverse human rights impacts...

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