A/HRC/42/29 Air Pollution and in the 2018 virtual summit held by the Climate Vulnerable Forum. She helped launch the For All Coalition for integrating human rights and gender equality in all multilateral environmental agreements; issued an open letter to Member States on integrating human rights in climate action; and spoke about climate-induced displacement at the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. She addressed events on rights-based climate action, accelerating action and support for adaptation, and just transition during the twenty-fourth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. OHCHR continued to actively engage with Member States and other stakeholders throughout the negotiations at that session in order to shine a spotlight on the links between human rights and climate change. The Office also organized events on human rights and climate change at the seventh session of the Forum on Business and Human Rights; provided testimony for the carbon majors inquiry of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines; actively contributed to the work of the Platform on Disaster Displacement;15 and supported the work of the Human Rights Council with respect to the environment and climate change. OHCHR submitted a study on gender-responsive climate action for the full and effective enjoyment of the rights of women to the Council for consideration at its forty-first session.16 19. As requested in Human Rights Council resolution 33/22, and through open, transparent and inclusive consultations, OHCHR prepared the draft guidelines for States on the effective implementation of the right to participate in public affairs. 17 By its resolution 39/11, the Council presented the guidelines as a set of orientations for States, and emphasized the critical importance of equal and effective participation in political and public affairs for, among others, social inclusion and economic development. The guidelines are an important tool for promoting the right to participate in development and related decision-making at the regional and international levels. 20. OHCHR has provided support for a series of regional-level activities. For instance, its Regional Office for South-East Asia supported work on the Sustainable Development Goals, on voluntary national reviews for the high-level political forum on sustainable development,18 on human rights and on the right to development. For instance, in March 2019, OHCHR participated in a regional workshop entitled “Empowering people for a sustainable future”, organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the Government of Sweden. During the workshop, the regional OHCHR office led the discussions on the theme “Participation to leave no one behind”. This activity promoted the principle that the human person is the central subject of development and should be the active participant and beneficiary of the right to development. 19 21. In Madagascar, OHCHR, through its Human Rights Adviser in the country, organized two workshops aimed at finalizing a tripartite charter. Representatives from civil society and local communities, the Government and mining companies developed the charter in order to promote the principles of active, free and meaningful participation, transparency and accountability in law and policymaking and to ensure that development policies incorporated a human rights-based approach. The workshops were organized in cooperation with the Research and Support Center for Development Alternatives – Indian Ocean (CRAAD-OI), a local non-governmental organization, and the national human rights commission. The workshops resulted in, inter alia, the effective involvement of the national human rights commission in the process as part of the monitoring mechanism. OHCHR is currently engaging with the private sector and the Government to jointly speed up the validation process. 22. OHCHR provided extensive support for country-level work towards the achievement of the right to development. Through the Human Rights Section of the United 15 16 17 18 19 See https://disasterdisplacement.org/. A/HRC/41/26. A/HRC/39/28. In accordance with General Assembly resolution 70/1, para. 79. Declaration on the Right to Development, art. 2 (1). 5