A/HRC/27/31 and other relevant principles and guidelines.36 Non-State development partners such as foundations, the private sector, international financial institutions and non-governmental organizations, also have responsibilities to ensure that child rights relating to health and survival are not violated through their actions.37 70. States are required to: (a) Direct international cooperation assistance to support and strengthen Stateled health systems and national plans to address child mortality and morbidity; (b) Adopt a human rights-based approach to international cooperation for reducing child mortality and morbidity by ensuring attention to all relevant human rights standards and principles, for example by ensuring that priorities are set through participatory processes, that there is a focus on the most excluded and discriminated against, and that mechanisms for international accountability are in place; (c) Ensure that all international cooperation supports laws, policies, programmes and services designed, implemented, monitored and evaluated using a human rights-based approach to reducing child mortality and morbidity; (d) Seek to ensure predictable, harmonized and transparent international cooperation to support State responses to child mortality and morbidity; (e) Strengthen their international commitment, cooperation and mutual assistance with the objective of reducing child mortality and morbidity, including through the sharing of good practices, research, policies, monitoring and capacity-building; (f) Direct their international cooperation assistance to supporting the creation of an environment in which all members of society can discharge their responsibilities with regard to child-health related human rights.38 This may include, for example, supporting social protection policies so that parents and caregivers are able to fulfil their responsibilities towards their children; (g) Regulate, in line with relevant principles,39 private actors over which they exercise control, such as pharmaceutical companies, commodities and device manufacturers, producers and marketers of breastmilk substitutes and other companies that affect efforts to address child mortality and morbidity overseas, in order to prevent violations of child health-related rights and ensure accountability, including remedy and redress, if violations occur;40 (h) Minimize the impact of economic sanctions on child health and survival.41 V. Illustrative example: addressing neonatal mortality 71. The example provided below seeks to illustrate a human rights-based approach to reducing neonatal mortality and demonstrates the practical value of this approach. 72. It covers different levels of intervention relevant to the prevention of neonatal mortality: laws and policies, access to health information and services and community36 37 38 39 40 41 The principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness; and the principles of the Accra Agenda for Action. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (A/HRC/17/31). E/C.12/2000/4. A/HRC/17/31; Children’s Rights and Business Principles. E/C.12/2000/4; CRC/GC/16. E/C.12/1997/8. 17