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aim at ensuring that negotiations lead to decision-making that complies with human rights.
OHCHR provided input on ways to reform the investment treaty system and conducted
research on State-investor contracts and human rights.
70.
In February, OHCHR co-organized a climate justice dialogue with the Mary
Robinson Foundation, as a result of which several States agreed to share best practices and
knowledge between human rights and climate experts. OHCHR advocated for human rights
considerations to be integrated in the outcome document of the Twenty-first Conference of
the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was
adopted in December.
2.
Economic, social and cultural rights
71.
On 15 September, OHCHR and United Nations partners launched an online platform
on social protection floors and human rights to provide States and practitioners with tools
for implementing the right to social security.
72.
OHCHR supported the Judicial Studies Institute of Uganda to roll out a curriculum
for judges on the enforcement of economic social and cultural rights.
73.
OHCHR held expert consultations in Geneva, in July, to explore the links between
violations of economic, social and cultural rights and conflict and to identify the essential
elements of an effective early warning system. The consultations were followed by a
regional meeting in Bangkok focusing on human rights violations in the context of landrelated issues.
74.
Forced evictions make millions homeless and landless, increasing poverty. OHCHR
developed a factsheet on forced evictions to help all stakeholders to prevent and remedy
human rights violations in that context. In Timor-Leste, OHCHR built the capacity of the
national human rights institution to monitor the right to adequate housing and to prevent
evictions. With the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), OHCHR
continued work on eviction impact assessments to enable a realistic estimation of the costs
of evictions. Against the backdrop of ever-increasing urbanization, generally accompanied
by discrimination and inequalities, OHCHR advocated for the integration of human rights
into decision-making on urbanization processes, also in view of the United Nations
Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), to be held in
Ecuador in October 2016.
75.
OHCHR led the human rights work stream in the preparation of the SecretaryGeneral’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030),
launched in 2015. As a result, accountability and the empowerment of women, children and
adolescents so that they can claim their rights are core aspects of the Strategy. OHCHR,
with partners such as the United Nations Population Fund and the World Health
Organization, produced detailed guidance for health policymakers and national human
rights institutions on key considerations in applying a rights-based approach to sexual,
reproductive, maternal, new-born and under-5 child health. In Malawi, the United Republic
of Tanzania and Zambia, those issues were assessed from a human rights perspective and
discussed in multi-stakeholder meetings at the national level. In Uganda, OHCHR assisted
civil society in developing the capacity to monitor violations of human rights related to
sexual and reproductive health.
3.
Business and human rights
76.
Since the Human Rights Council endorsed the Guiding Principles on Business and
Human Rights in 2011, OHCHR has supported some States, for instance Malaysia, in
developing national action plans on business and human rights and engaged with
companies to encourage them to more effectively manage human rights risks incurred by
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