A/HRC/41/44/Add.2 communications procedure; and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 100. Dutch businesses and funds should make more effort to integrate the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights into their day-to-day operations and in all their activities related to the advancement of international solidarity. In this regard, the Independent Expert also welcomes the country’s commitment towards corporate social responsibility and its implementation of the Global Deal initiative. However, he urges it to continue to strengthen its commitment to and accountability for human rights-based international solidarity in this area, beyond the corporate social responsibility framework. 101. The Independent Expert encourages the Government to launch a new National Action Plan on Human Rights following extensive consultations with all relevant stakeholders. This new National Action Plan should address the issues of concern that have been identified by the national human rights institution, in particular the issues of poverty and discrimination. A specific component of this plan should be tailored to address the particular issues encountered in the islands of the Caribbean that constitute part of the Kingdom, as discussed above. 102. The Government should actively promote its good practices discussed above, in particular its social inclusion and sustainable water management policies and practices that can be replicated in other countries facing similar climate-change issues. 103. With regard to international cooperation and development aid in compliance with human rights-based international solidarity, the Government should continue to reinforce bilateral and multilateral partnerships with all relevant actors (civil society organizations, business, social partners, international and regional organizations, etc.) in this area, while strengthening its commitment to a human rights-based approach in all its relationships. 104. To act in compliance with human rights-based international solidarity with regard to migration issues, increased efforts should be made to ease the process of family reunification for persons granted refugee status; the forced return of migrants must be in compliance with international refugee and human rights protection requirements, as well as in line with the principle of human rights-based international solidarity. 105. Finally, in the light of the rise of xenophobic populist discourses against migrants and refugees, the Independent Expert urges the Government to enhance its efforts to combat such discourses, as they tend to jeopardize and threaten considerably the efforts to advance human rights-based international solidarity. 17

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