A/HRC/36/22 22. The Committee on the Rights of the Child recommended that Peru require all companies to undertake assessments, consultations and full public disclosure of the environmental, health-related and human rights impacts of their business activities and their plans to address such impacts, ensuring that all affected groups of indigenous peoples are involved in relevant consultation processes and that their views, including the views of indigenous children, are duly taken into account. 23. On 1 May 2017, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued an admissibility decision concerning a petition against Sweden submitted by the Head of the Saami Council Human Rights Unit. The petitioners alleged that Sweden had breached its obligation under the Convention when granting to a private mining company an exploitation concession consisting of three open-pit mines in a region where pasture areas of critical importance to reindeer herding cycle are located. The petition has been declared admissible and the Committee will review its merits in an upcoming session. B. Human rights defenders 24. During the period under review, the shrinking of democratic spaces and the criminalization of protest activities continued to pose many challenges for human right defenders working for the rights of indigenous peoples. 25. At the high-level event to mark the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights recalled that, according to the non-governmental organization (NGO) Frontline Defenders, out of 281 human rights defenders killed in 25 countries in 2016, almost half had been defending their land, environment and indigenous rights, despite the repeated calls for protection of indigenous human rights defenders by the Special Rapporteur and others. 26. The protection of those defending indigenous peoples’ rights was also raised by various OHCHR field presences. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Plurinational State of Bolivia issued a press release to urge the Public Ministry to investigate the facts and identify those responsible for the threats and acts of aggression against human rights defenders and their NGOs, who supported the process of indigenous autonomy in Charagua Iyambae, by a group of local settlers who opposed the indigenous autonomous process. 27. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia prioritized the monitoring of situations of violence, insecurity and abuses affecting indigenous peoples, including attacks against indigenous leaders. It also provided training and technical assistance to 150 indigenous guards from the Nasa, Embera Chami and Motilón Bari communities, enabling them to exercise their authority in cases of breaches of their own laws and to coordinate with public security forces in cases that fall under the ordinary jurisdiction of the competent prosecution office. 28. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Guatemala has registered and documented dozens of cases of threats and attacks against indigenous human rights defenders, especially in the context of the defence of lands, territories and natural resources, coordinating with relevant State authorities to provide and follow up on protection measures for the victims, including with the Unit for the Analysis of Attacks against Human Rights Defenders of the Ministry of the Interior. OHCHR is also providing technical assistance to the Government in the development of a public policy on the protection of human rights defenders. 29. Together with the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Office provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security for developing a protocol to monitor the situation of agricultural workers, the majority of whom are indigenous. 30. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras monitored issues related to lack of land demarcation and alleged corruption on the provision of titles over indigenous lands, territories and resources, observing an increase 5