A/HRC/44/2
Rights and Soka Gakkai International), Institut International pour les Droits et le
Développement, International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations, Iraqi
Development Organization, South Youth Organization (by video message), Terra de
Direitos (by video message).
166. At the same meeting, the Independent Expert answered questions and made his
concluding remarks.
Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and
other business enterprises
167. At the 16th meeting, on 9 July 2020, the Chair of the Working Group on the issue of
human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Anita
Ramasastry, presented the reports of the Working Group (A/HRC/44/43 and Add.1–2 and
4) (by video message).
168. At the same meeting, the representatives of Georgia and Honduras (by video
message) made statements as the States concerned.
169. During the ensuing interactive dialogue, at the same meeting and at the 18th
meeting, on 10 July 2020, the following made statements and asked the Chair of the
Working Group questions:
(a)
Representatives of States Members of the Human Rights Council: Armenia,
Burkina Faso (on behalf of the Group of African States), Germany, Indonesia, Japan,
Nepal, Netherlands (also on behalf of Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg,
Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Philippines
(by video message), Russian Federation47 (also on behalf of Argentina, Ghana and
Norway), Spain (by video message), Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of);
(b)
Representatives of observer States: Belgium, Ecuador, Ghana, Ireland,
Jordan, Mozambique, Syrian Arab Republic, United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, State of Palestine;
(c)
Observer for an intergovernmental organization: European Union;
(d)
Observer for a national human rights institution: Global Alliance of National
Human Rights Institutions (by video message);
(e)
Observers for non-governmental organizations: Americans for Democracy
and Human Rights in Bahrain, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (by video
message), Centre Europe-tiers monde (also on behalf of FIAN International, Friends of the
Earth International and International Association of Democratic Lawyers), China Society
for Human Rights Studies (by video message), France Libertes : Fondation Danielle
Mitterrand, Institut International pour les Droits et le Développement, Institute for NGO
Research (by video message), Iraqi Development Organization, Peace Brigades
International Switzerland (also on behalf of International Service for Human Rights) (by
video message), Society for Threatened Peoples;
170. At the 18th meeting, on 10 July 2020, the Chair of the Working Group answered
questions and made her concluding remarks (by video teleconference).
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GE.
Observer of the Human Rights Council speaking on behalf of Member and observer States.
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