This short contribution...provide[s]...our views...in [two] specific areas, in which our expertise lies... 1. Mainstreaming the Guiding Principles in the UN human rights mechanisms...One way to encourage the dissemination and the implementation of the Guiding Principles would be to include them in the list of documents against which the states’ records are assessed [in the Universal Periodic Review]...[The] bodies monitoring the main UN human rights treaties...need to be made aware...that business and human rights issues fall under their mandate... 2. Mainstreaming the Guiding Principles in...work...regarding indigenous peoples’ rights...[C]ooperation [between UN agencies on indigenous issues] needs now to integrate the Guiding Principles...[using them] as benchmarks in...[these agencies' work] when it comes to the rights of indigenous peoples. Likewise the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples should be used as a benchmark by UN agencies...[for] issues involving businesses and indigenous peoples.