A/HRC/34/L.50 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 23 March 2017 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session 27 February–24 March 2017 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development South Africa: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/34/L.25 34/… Rights of the Child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Paragraph 19 should read 19. Encourages the private sector to work to ensure the alignment of their activities with international human rights law and relevant standards, including those related to the rights of the child, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – and to that end, underlines the imperative need for the elaboration of a legally binding instrument, consistent with Human Rights Council resolution 26/9 of 26 June 2014, on the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises, holding these entities accountable in international human rights and humanitarian law for abuses and violations of human rights – and the Children’s Rights and Business Principles of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), through the undertaking of child-rights due diligence with a view to identifying, preventing and mitigating the possible negative impact of their operations on the enjoyment of the rights of the child;” GE.17-04571(E) 