A/HRC/34/L.48 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 22 March 2017 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session 27 February–24 March 2017 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development South Africa: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/34/L.22 34/… Right to work Paragraph 22 should read 22. Highlights the vital role of the private sector in generating new investments, job opportunities and financing for development and in advancing efforts towards the full realization of the right to work and the promotion of inclusive, sustained economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all, noting the multi-year strategy of the United Nations Global Compact to drive business awareness and action in support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, and recalling the need to promote the implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – and to this end, underlines the imperative need for the elaboration of a legally binding instrument, in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 26/9 of 26 June 2014, on the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises, holding these entities accountable in international human rights and humanitarian law for abuses and violations of human rights – and of the Women’s Empowerment Principles established by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the Global Compact; GE.17-04568(E) 