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61.
In the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
OHCHR was actively engaged in charting a path forward for rights-based and inclusive
climate action that benefits all people. OHCHR also provided inputs to the Nairobi work
programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, with respect to the
right to health; the Lima Work Programme on Gender; and the Paris Committee on
Capacity-building.
2.
Economic, social and cultural rights
62.
OHCHR and the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the
right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context
actively contributed to integrating human rights into the United Nations Conference on
Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) and its outcome document.
OHCHR also provided technical advice to Governments on land laws, including in
Cambodia, Kenya, Thailand and Timor-Leste, with a view to integrating human rights
principles. In Cambodia, OHCHR supported indigenous communities in the “indigenous
identity registration” process, enabling them to seek formal recognition of their communal
lands to protect them against encroachment by private enterprises and others.
63.
OHCHR continued work on an analytical framework for early warning and
economic, social and cultural rights to improve its capacity to respond promptly to
emerging crises.
64.
At the sixty-ninth World Health Assembly, OHCHR and the World Health
Organization established a high-level working group of global champions to generate
support for the implementation of human rights measures under the Global Strategy on
Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030). Participating in the forty-third
session of the Committee on World Food Security in October, OHCHR highlighted the
centrality of human rights in achieving the 2030 Agenda and the need to protect the right to
food in the context of urbanization and rural transformation.
65.
In Afghanistan, OHCHR joined other United Nations agencies co-publish a threeyear study titled Education and Healthcare at Risk, on how conflict-related violence,
threats and intimidation by all parties to the conflict in that country have harmed health and
education personnel, reduced the availability of health care and limited children’s access to
essential health and education services.
3.
Business and human rights
66.
OHCHR sought to ensure responsible business involvement in the 2030 Agenda and
provided support for the implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework,
including in Cambodia, Chile, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Uruguay.
The outcomes of the OHCHR Accountability and Remedy Project were presented to the
Human Rights Council at its thirty-second session (A/HRC/32/19 and Corr.1), with
recommendations to enhance State-based judicial mechanisms to ensure legal
accountability in business-related human rights abuses.
67.
OHCHR continued to assist the Working Group on the issue of human rights and
transnational corporations and other business enterprises in developing a legally binding
instrument for those companies concerning human rights. Regional seminars attended by
representatives of Member States and the Working Group were held in Asia (Qatar) and
South America (Argentina). In Mexico, OHCHR provided human rights expertise to the
first national business and human rights plan and facilitated input from civil society
organizations and indigenous communities.
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