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support capacity-building efforts to advance the implementation of the Guiding Principles.
Lastly, the Council called on the Secretary-General to report on the implementation of the
recommendations by the United Nations system in the first report due in June 2014.
9.
The Working Group welcomes the report of the Secretary-General as well as the
resolution and recommendations of the Human Rights Council. Implementation of these
recommendations and the full support and engagement of the United Nations system will be
necessary to advance in building the capacity of national stakeholders to implement the
Guiding Principles. The Working Group will collaborate closely with OHCHR and other
United Nations partners to ensure mainstreaming of the Guiding Principles within the
United Nations system. Furthermore, the Working Group calls on States and the business
community to support the establishment of a multi-stakeholder fund to support capacitybuilding activities.
C.
Development of the post-2015 framework
10.
The General Assembly is expected to adopt in late 2013, at its sixty-eighth session,
its first resolution on the post-2015 development framework, which will replace the
Millennium Development Goals. The resolution will be the culmination of an intense
process of national and global thematic consultations and the establishment of a high-level
panel by the Secretary-General.
11.
The Working Group notes and supports the recommendation made by the United
Nations System Task Team on the Post-2015 United Nations Development Agenda that
human rights should be one of the three fundamental principles (alongside equality and
sustainability) to form the basis for the post-2015 development agenda and framework. 11
The Working Group further highlights that the role of business is critical to all the trends,
challenges and opportunities that were identified by the Task Team.
12.
The Working Group therefore calls for the Guiding Principles, which were
developed to address the global governance gap between the scope and impact of economic
forces and actors, to be fully integrated into global post-2015 strategies relating to business
enterprises. Specifically, the Working Group, in its submission to the High-level Panel of
Eminent Persons on a post-2015 United Nations Development Agenda, called for post-2015
recommendations addressing the role of business to, at a minimum, be aligned with the
Guiding Principles and the corporate responsibility to respect human rights.
III. Information received by the Working Group
13.
In 2012, the Working Group received approximately 40 submissions detailing
situations of concern. Submissions came primarily from civil society organizations and
academic researchers, as well as from national human rights institutions and
intergovernmental organizations. These reports commonly addressed the impact of business
activity on specific communities, with about 25 per cent of the submissions focusing
specifically on indigenous peoples. The majority of the reports concerned individuals and
communities in the Asia-Pacific and Latin America and Caribbean regions. They chiefly
addressed the alleged negative human rights impact caused by or linked to the mining,
energy and financial sectors. The most frequent allegations concerned the rights to life,
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United Nations System Task Team on the Post-2015 United Nations Development Agenda, Realizing
the Future We Want for All: report to the Secretary-General, June 2012. Available from
www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/Post_2015_UNTTreport.pdf.
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