A/HRC/23/32
A.
Stakeholders
70.
The Working Group calls upon all stakeholders:
(a)
To collect and exchange lessons learned from implementation efforts.
Lessons learned from implementation efforts by States and business enterprises
should be systematically shared with the Working Group. At the national, regional
and sector levels, the exchange of these lessons learned should be facilitated, at both
the policy and the working levels, between stakeholders.
(b)
To enhance guidance on effectiveness of remedy. Stakeholders are
encouraged to collaborate in the efforts made by the Working Group to conduct
further research and to establish more detailed guidance on effectiveness criteria for
non-judicial remedy mechanisms.
(c)
To provide small- and medium-sized enterprises with guidance. States
and business organizations should cooperate to raise awareness of the Guiding
Principles among these enterprises, and to elaborate specific tools and guidance on
implementation for them.
(d)
To address the situation of indigenous peoples. Stakeholders are
encouraged to collaborate in the efforts of the Working Group to provide States and
business enterprises with more detailed guidance on the implementation of the
Guiding Principles in relation to indigenous peoples and potential or actual impact on
their human rights relating to business activities, with due regard for the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
(e)
To increase capacity to use the Guiding Principles. States, business
enterprises, the United Nations system, regional organizations and other stakeholders
are encouraged to collaborate to raise the awareness and capacity of all actors to use
the Guiding Principles to improve the prevention of adverse impacts on human rights
arising from business activities and to ensure accountability and remedy cases of
impact when they occur. This should include special efforts to raise awareness and
capacity to use the Guiding Principles by civil society organizations, human rights
defenders and individuals or groups who are at a heightened risk of vulnerability to
negative impact or marginalization.
(f)
To use the Principles for responsible contracts. States and business
enterprises should raise the awareness and capacity of negotiators to use the
principles for responsible contracts41 in State-investor negotiations.
B.
States
71.
The Working Group calls upon all States, when implementing the Guiding
Principles, to consider the following actions:
(a) To designate responsibility for the implementation of the Guiding
Principles and focal points in relevant ministries, and establish an interdepartmental
group on the issue, or build on an existing mechanism for this purpose. States should
avoid the compartmentalization of responsibilities on implementation of the Guiding
Principles within single departments. The awareness and capacity of members of the
group on the Guiding Principles should be built. The group should ensure
collaboration with the national human rights institution.
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