Pursuant to the above call for suggestions for the programme of the new Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, the following contributions were received:

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States

• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• France
• Guatemala
• Iraq
• Japan
• Norway
• Oman
• Russian Federation
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom
• Uruguay

UN and Intergovernmental Organisations

• European Union
• Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• UNICEF
• UNRWA

National Human Rights Institutions

• Canadian Human Rights Commission
• International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
• National Human Rights Commission of India

Civil Society/Trade Unions

• Amnesty International
• Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
• CIDSE
• Clean Clothes Campaign
• CODPI
• Council of Global Unions
• Earth Rights International
• ECA Watch/ Halifax Initiative
• Edupax
• FIDH
• Forest Peoples Programme
• Fund for Peace
• Human Rights Watch
• Indian Law Resource Center
• Indigenous Peoples Links (PIPLinks)
• Institute for Human Rights and Business
• International Alert
• International Commission of Jurists
• International Indian Treaty Council
• International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), Corporate Accountability Working Group
• Justiça Global
• Mine Labour Protection Campaign Trust, India
• National Coalition on Gas Flaring and Oil Spills in the Niger Delta – NACGOND and Cordaid
• Natural Justice and the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development
• Oxfam Australia
• Peace Brigades International
• SOMO - Centre for Research on MNCs
• World Vision

Business

• BASF
• Chevron
• Clifford Chance
• CSR Europe
• Daimler
• Day Associates
• Econsense
• Global Business Initiative
• International Council on Mining and Metals
• International Organisation of Employers, International Chamber of Commerce and Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD
• IPIECA
• Meridian Group International
• NEI Investments
• Right2Respect

Multi-stakeholder initiatives

• Guías Colombia
• Colombian Mining and Energy Committee on Security and Human Rights
• Gender, Business and Human Rights Reference Group
• Global Network Initiative
• Social Accountability International

Academia and independent researchers

• Andrea Saldarriaga
• Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
• David Bilchitz, Juana Kweitel, Bonita Meyersfeld
• Grupo de Estudios sobre el Derecho Internacional Privado y los Derechos Humanos
• Institute of Employment Rights
• Iradj Eghrari
• Iveta Cherneva
• Kate Macdonald, Shelley Marshall, Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
• Lucy Purdon
• Maaike Harmsen
• Mariana Rulli
• Mary Dowell-Jones and David Kinley
• Middlesex University Law Department
• NomoGaia
• Rasim S. Abderrahim
• Singapore Management University Asian Peace-building and Rule of Law Programme and Mazars