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(ii)
Enacting, implementing and enforcing laws that prohibit and provide
penalties for conduct by corporations that violates human rights abroad;
(iii) Ensuring that trade and other agreements on investment in natural
resource exploitation activities, whether concluded bilaterally or multilaterally,
recognize and protect the exercise of peaceful assembly and association rights
for affected individuals and groups;
(iv) Consider the elaboration of an international legally binding instrument
on human rights standards for businesses, as proposed by the Human Rights
Council in its resolution 26/9, and ensure that these standards apply to
businesses working domestically as well as internationally;
(d)
Develop, in consultation with the private sector and civil society, binding
laws and standards which ensure that private actors abide by international and
domestic human rights norms, including in the context of natural resource
exploitation;
(e)
Subscribe to and increase the quality of implementation of existing
multi-stakeholder initiatives, such as the Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative and the Open Government Partnership, which encourage civil society
participation in the governance of natural resources; participating States should
strengthen the role of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in
these initiatives;
(f)
Ensure the provision of adequate security and public order management
in accordance with international human rights law to preclude the need for private
military and security companies to fill this gap.
B.
Corporations
73.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that corporations:
(a)
Meet their obligations to respect internationally accepted human rights
in their natural resource exploitation activities, including the rights to freedom of
peaceful assembly and of association;
(b)
Adhere to the principle to “do no harm”, by avoiding causing or
contributing to violations of peaceful assembly and association rights and preventing
and mitigating violations linked to business relationships; corporations should also
insist that States uphold peaceful assembly and association rights;
(c)
Implement the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights by,
among other things, making policy commitments to respect peaceful assembly and
association rights and conducting due diligence in relation to human rights, including
through human rights impact assessments;
(d)
Subscribe to and increase the quality of participation in and
implementation of existing multi-stakeholder initiatives, such as the Extractive
Industries Transparency Initiative and the Open Government Partnership;
participating corporations should strengthen their role in respecting the rights to
freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the framework of these initiatives;
(e)
Provide avenues for compensation and other redress in the event of
human rights violations related to natural resource exploitation activities;
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