A/HRC/2/2 A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36 page 24 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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