A/HRC/37/63 Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Principles of international order .................................................................................................... 5 III. Obstacles to and recommendations for the progressive achievement of a democratic and equitable international order .......................................................................................................... 7 Recommendations from some of the previous reports of the Independent Expert ........................ 13 A. Reform of the Organization and its agencies ........................................................................ 13 B. International order and indigenous peoples .......................................................................... 13 C. Disarmament for development .............................................................................................. 13 D. Criteria for the exercise of self-determination ...................................................................... 14 E. World parliamentary assembly in consultative status with the General Assembly............... 15 F. Investor-State dispute settlement arbitrations ....................................................................... 15 G. International trade and the growing power of transnational corporations............................. 16 H. A treaty making the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights binding ................ 16 I. Tax evasion and tax havens .................................................................................................. 17 J. International financial institutions ........................................................................................ 17 K. Gender equality ..................................................................................................................... 19 Conclusions and recommendations ............................................................................................... 19 I. A new functional paradigm on human rights ................................................................................ 21 II. Rule of law must evolve into rule of justice .................................................................................. 23 IV. V. Annexes 2