A/HRC/43/64/Add.1 Mandate Description of events organized by mandate holders role of national human rights institutions in facilitating access to remedy for businessrelated human rights abuses in Geneva on 10-11 October 2019. The consultation aimed at exploring how the existing role of NHRIs in facilitating access to effective remedy for business-related human rights abuses can be strengthened, including through sharing of NHRIs’ experiences, challenges, lessons learned, and innovations from all world regions. The global consultation was organised within the framework of the Working Group’s thematic work on the access to remedy for business-related human rights abuses, and aimed to complement the OHCHR’s Accountability and Remedy Project. It built on prior engagement with NHRIs, including in the context of previous consultations on access to remedy at the national and regional levels, country visits as well as focused sessions at the annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights. The consultation was organized in coordination with GANHRI and was open to the participation of all interested stakeholders. The 8th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights chaired and guided by the Working Group on Business and Human Rights, was held from 25 to 27 November. The 2019 Forum, the world's largest annual gathering on business and human rights, was opened by the High Commissioner and brought together over 2,400 participants from more than 130 countries, representing governments, businesses, civil society and community groups, national human rights institutions, and international organizations. Under the overall theme of “Time to act: Governments as catalysts for business respect for human rights", Governments were urged to move from paper to practice in implementing fully the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Participants took part in more than 60 panel discussions on current and emerging business-related human rights issues, including climate justice and human rights, the impact on human rights of new technology and artificial intelligence, and ensuring access to remedy. Indigenous peoples and human rights defenders provided their “voices from the ground” amidst strong calls for greater protection of individuals and communities from business-related abuses. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights From 18 to 19 October 2019, the Special Rapporteur held an expert meeting with some European cultural rights defenders at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The meeting allowed participants to share their experiences in a wide range of circumstances, and to provide recommendations for the Rapporteur’s next thematic report. On 22 October, the Special Rapporteur held a second expert meeting with the same objectives, but this time in New York, with the attendance of international cultural rights defenders. Special Rapporteur on the right In accordance with Council resolution 36/9, the Special Rapporteur has convened regional consultations on the practical implementation of the right to development. On to development 10 and 11 April 2019, the Special Rapporteur convened the fifth and final meeting, which took place in Dakar, Senegal. The summary meeting followed regional consultations held by the Special Rapporteur in Addis Ababa, Geneva, Panama City and Bangkok. Gathering experts working in the areas of development finance, accountability, community organizing and global governance from Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the Dakar consultation provided an opportunity to reflect on—and refine—nearly 200 contributions on practically fulfilling the right to development received from Member States, representatives of civil society and international organizations during the past year and a half. The consultations resulted in the development of guidelines and recommendations for designing, monitoring and assessing the structures, processes and outcomes of human rights-informed development policies, which were presented to the Human Rights Council at its September 2019 session. Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities On 19 March 2019, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities convened an expert meeting in New York on the intersections between women’s rights and rights of persons with disabilities. On 4 June 2019, the Special Rapporteur convened a meeting on the standardization of the production of documents in easy-to-read and plain language in the United Nations, 71