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Taking into account the interim report of the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other
business enterprises (E/CN.4/2006/97),
Also taking into account the working paper prepared by Ms. Chin-Sung Chung and
Ms. Florizelle O’Connor on bilateral and multilateral economic agreements and their impact on
the human rights of the beneficiaries (A/HRC/Sub.1/58/CRP.8) and the working paper prepared
by Mr. Gáspár Bíró on the role of States in the guarantee of human rights with reference to the
activities of transnational corporations and other business entities (A/HRC/Sub.1/58/CRP.12),
1.
Thanks the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the sessional working group set up to
examine the working methods and activities of transnational corporations, Mr. El-Hadji Guissé,
for his report on the work of the eighth session of the working group (A/HRC/Sub.1/58/11);
2.
Recommends that the Human Rights Council should adopt the “Norms on the
Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with regard to
Human Rights” and consider establishing a monitoring body;
3.
Also recommends that the issue of the working methods and activities of
transnational corporations should remain on the agenda of the Human Rights Council and on that
of the future expert advice mechanism which will advise it;
4.
Further recommends that activities within the United Nations system relating to
multinational enterprises should be coordinated by this future expert advice mechanism in order
to ensure greater consistency among such activities.
21st meeting
24 August 2006
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. VI.]
2006/8. The Social Forum
The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the indivisibility,
interdependence and interrelated nature of economic, social and cultural rights and civil
and political rights, and the Proclamation of Teheran of the International Conference on
Human Rights held in 1968 which states that full realization of civil and political rights without
the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights is impossible,
Recalling also Commission on Human Rights decision 2001/103 of 25 April 2001
authorizing the Sub-Commission to hold the Social Forum and decision 2003/107 of
22 April 2003 recommending to the Economic and Social Council that it authorize the
Sub-Commission to convene in Geneva an annual intersessional forum on economic, social
and cultural rights, to be known as the “Social Forum”, and Economic and Social Council
decision 2003/264 of 23 July 2003,
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