A/HRC/34/3 61. In the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, OHCHR was actively engaged in charting a path forward for rights-based and inclusive climate action that benefits all people. OHCHR also provided inputs to the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, with respect to the right to health; the Lima Work Programme on Gender; and the Paris Committee on Capacity-building. 2. Economic, social and cultural rights 62. OHCHR and the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context actively contributed to integrating human rights into the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) and its outcome document. OHCHR also provided technical advice to Governments on land laws, including in Cambodia, Kenya, Thailand and Timor-Leste, with a view to integrating human rights principles. In Cambodia, OHCHR supported indigenous communities in the “indigenous identity registration” process, enabling them to seek formal recognition of their communal lands to protect them against encroachment by private enterprises and others. 63. OHCHR continued work on an analytical framework for early warning and economic, social and cultural rights to improve its capacity to respond promptly to emerging crises. 64. At the sixty-ninth World Health Assembly, OHCHR and the World Health Organization established a high-level working group of global champions to generate support for the implementation of human rights measures under the Global Strategy on Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030). Participating in the forty-third session of the Committee on World Food Security in October, OHCHR highlighted the centrality of human rights in achieving the 2030 Agenda and the need to protect the right to food in the context of urbanization and rural transformation. 65. In Afghanistan, OHCHR joined other United Nations agencies co-publish a threeyear study titled Education and Healthcare at Risk, on how conflict-related violence, threats and intimidation by all parties to the conflict in that country have harmed health and education personnel, reduced the availability of health care and limited children’s access to essential health and education services. 3. Business and human rights 66. OHCHR sought to ensure responsible business involvement in the 2030 Agenda and provided support for the implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, including in Cambodia, Chile, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Uruguay. The outcomes of the OHCHR Accountability and Remedy Project were presented to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-second session (A/HRC/32/19 and Corr.1), with recommendations to enhance State-based judicial mechanisms to ensure legal accountability in business-related human rights abuses. 67. OHCHR continued to assist the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises in developing a legally binding instrument for those companies concerning human rights. Regional seminars attended by representatives of Member States and the Working Group were held in Asia (Qatar) and South America (Argentina). In Mexico, OHCHR provided human rights expertise to the first national business and human rights plan and facilitated input from civil society organizations and indigenous communities. 12

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