A/HRC/44/43 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 17 June 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fourth session 15 June–3 July 2020 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Connecting the business and human rights and the anticorruption agendas Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises* Summary The present report was prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 17/4 and 35/7. The Working Group examines how the business and human rights agenda, articulated in the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and anti-corruption efforts, are interconnected. It examines the good practices that States, businesses and civil society can undertake to address corruption when it has negative impacts on human rights in the context of business-related activity, with a view to preventing such negative impacts and to ensuring access to remedy. It also demonstrates how measures driving responsible business practices in relation to business and human rights and anti-corruption efforts, can reinforce each other to ensure coherent policy. * The present report was submitted after the deadline so as to include the most recent information. GE.20-07998(E) 