A/HRC/43/3 to social protection during the Global Social Protection Week of the International Labour Organization (ILO). 26. To highlight the right to sanitation, in November 2019, OHCHR led the UN-Water global campaign for the World Toilet Day under the theme of “Leaving no one behind”.12 In Mexico and Colombia, OHCHR continued to monitor the rights to health, water and a healthy environment. 27. OHCHR was also actively engaged on the issue of forced evictions, with a focus on indigenous peoples and minorities in a number of countries, including in Cambodia, Colombia, Honduras and Thailand. 28. OHCHR continued to engage with cities and local governments and to promote their role in the promotion and protection of human rights. In October, OHCHR participated in the World Human Rights Cities Forum in the Republic of Korea where it presented the report of High Commissioner on local government (see A/HRC/42/22). 5. Environment, climate change and human rights 29. OHCHR continued to prioritize the integration of human rights in environment and climate action. In September 2019, in her opening address to the forty-second session of the Human Rights Council, the High Commissioner highlighted climate change as an unprecedented threat to human rights that demanded immediate action.13 In September, OHCHR co-organized, with several partners, the Peoples’ Summit on Climate, Rights and Human Survival resulting in a declaration14 signed by more than 400 organizations. 30. OHCHR regional and country offices worked increasingly on environmental issues, such as the protection of environmental human rights defenders, the human rights impact of mining activities and mega-infrastructure, indigenous peoples, land rights, the integration of human rights in climate laws and policies, and the impact of climate change on the effective enjoyment of human rights. OHCHR organized a regional meeting for Pacific States on climate change and human rights in Fiji in August. In October, it held a regional dialogue, in the Philippines, with national human rights institutions from Asia on climate change as a transboundary human rights issue. 31. Moreover, the OHCHR continued to work to create space for people to engage in environmental decision-making, including through support for the ratification and implementation of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement), engagement on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and enhanced collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme. The High Commissioner’s participation at the 25th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in December 2019 capped off a year of action by OHCHR in that important area. 6. Business and human rights 32. OHCHR provided technical support for the implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the development of national action plans in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Honduras, Mexico, Mongolia and the Russian Federation, among other countries. Furthermore, OHCHR conducted national and regional company peerlearning workshops in Cambodia, Kenya, the Russian Federation and South Africa, as well as a regional workshop in Thailand to strengthen capacities to implement the Guiding Principles. In Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Papua New Guinea and Peru, OHCHR is implementing a project on responsible business conduct in Latin America and the Caribbean, in collaboration with ILO and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). 12 13 14 6 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, The United Nations World Water Development Report 2019: Leaving No One Behind (Paris, 2019). See www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=24956. See www.climaterights4all.com/peoples-summit-on-climate-rights-and-human-survival.