A RECORDING OF THIS SESSION IS AVAILABLE HERE. About this session
In this session, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights will present its UNGPs 10+ Roadmap for the Next Decade of Business and Human Rights, with recommendations on how to scale up implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).
The session will feature:
- A presentation of action areas and priority goals set out in the Working Group’s UNGPs 10+ Roadmap for the next decade of UNGPs implementation.
- A discussion between the Working Group and representatives from OHCHR, OECD, ILO, UNDP and UN Global Compact on follow-up to the recommendations for the road ahead.
BackgroundAs the UNGPs turned 10 in June 2021, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, as part of its mandate to promote the UNGPs, took stock of the first decade of implementation. The
stocktaking highlighted that the UNGPs have led to significant progress by providing a common framework for all stakeholders in managing business-related human rights risks and impacts, but that considerable implementation and coherence challenges remain. As follow-on from the stocktaking, the Working Group developed its
UNGPs 10+ Roadmap for the Next Decade with forward-looking recommendations for the next ten years. Building on the stocktaking’s analysis of achievements to date and existing challenges and opportunities, it sets out key action areas for the road ahead for progressively getting closer to fuller UNGPs realization. Each action area identifies priority goals and supporting actions to be taken by States and businesses as well as others that play a role in realizing UNGPs implementation.
The stocktaking and the Roadmap are results of the Working Group’s UNGPs 10+ project, which has been supported by a wider-ranging multi-stakeholder consultation process, numerous written inputs and collaboration with partners, including the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and UNDP.
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