Elaboration of an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights — A/HRC/RES/26/9 | UN Mandate Registry
Elaboration of an International Legally Binding Instrument on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Respect to Human Rights
Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis
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Decides to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights; whose mandate shall be to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises;
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Also decides that the first two sessions of the open-ended intergovernmental working group shall be dedicated to conducting constructive deliberations on the content, scope, nature and form of the future international instrument, in this regard;
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Further decides that the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the open-ended intergovernmental working group should prepare elements for the draft legally binding instrument for substantive negotiations at the commencement of the third session of the working group on the subject, taking into consideration the discussions held at its first two sessions;
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Decides that the open-ended intergovernmental working group shall hold its first session for five working days in 2015, before the thirtieth session of the Human Rights Council;
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Recommendsthat the first meeting of the open-ended intergovernmental working group serve to collect inputs, including written inputs, from States and relevant stakeholders on possible principles, scope and elements of such an international legally binding instrument;
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Affirms the importance of providing the open-ended intergovernmental working group with independent expertise and expert advice in order for it to fulfil its mandate;
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Requeststhe United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide the open-ended intergovernmental working group with all the assistance necessary for the effective fulfilment of its mandate;
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Requeststhe open-ended intergovernmental working group to submit a report on progress made to the Human Rights Council for consideration at its thirty-first session;
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Decides to continue consideration of this question in conformity with its annual programme of work.
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Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis
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