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Working Group on Business and Human Rights
As part of its mandate, the Working Group submits annual reports to the Human Rights Council as well as the General Assembly. The Working Group has also published outcome reports for a number of its annual sessions, which are organized on a triannual basis. Links to these reports can be found in the tables below.
Country visit reports can be found on the Working Group’s country visits page.
Reports from the Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights and associated regional forums, organized and chaired by the Working Group, are available on the Forum’s report page.
Working Group reports to the Human Rights Council
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Bodies |
Session |
Symbol number |
Title |
| HRC | 53rd | A/HRC/53/24 | Building capacity for the implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights |
| HRC | 53rd | A/HRC/53/24/Add.1 | Visit to Liberia |
| HRC | 53rd | A/HRC/53/24/Add.2 | Visit to Luxembourg |
| HRC | 53rd | A/HRC/53/24/Add.3 (Advance edited version. In Spanish only) | Visit to Argentina |
| HRC | 53rd | A/HRC/53/24/Add.4 | Development finance institutions and human rights |
| HRC | 53rd | A/HRC/53/24/Add.5 (in Spanish only) | Seventh Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights for Latin America and the Caribbean |
| HRC | 53rd | A/HRC/53/24/Add.6 (in Spanish only) | Report of the working group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises on its visit to Argentina - Comments by the State |
| HRC | 53rd | A/HRC/53/55 | Eleventh session of the Forum on Business and Human Rights |
| HRC | 50th | A/HRC/50/40 | The coronavirus disease pandemic: lessons learned and moving forward |
| HRC | 50th | A/HRC/50/40/Add.3 | Tenth anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: a roadmap for the next decade of business and human rights – raising the ambition, increasing the pace |
| HRC | 50th | A/HRC/50/40/Add.4 | Implementing the third pillar: lessons from transitional justice guidance by the Working Group |
| HRC | 47th | A/HRC/47/39 | Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights at 10: taking stock of the first decade |
| HRC | 47th | A/HRC/47/39/Add.1 | Taking stock of investor implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights |
| HRC | 47th | A/HRC/47/39/Add.2 | The Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: guidance on ensuring respect for human rights defenders |
| HRC | 47th | A/HRC/47/39/Add.3 | Role of national human rights institutions in facilitating access to remedy for business-related human rights abuses |
| HRC | 44th | A/HRC/44/43 | Connecting the business and human rights and the anti-corruption agendas |
| HRC | 41st | A/HRC/41/43 | Gender dimensions of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights |
| HRC | 38th | A/HRC/38/48 | “Economic diplomacy" as a tool for States to promote corporate respect for human rights |
| HRC | 35th | A/HRC/35/32 | Opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises in the implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights |
| HRC | 35th | A/HRC/35/33 | Best practices and how to improve on the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation between States with respect to law enforcement on the issue of business and human rights |
| HRC | 32nd | A/HRC/32/45 | Report of the Working Group on "Leading by example - The State, State-owned enterprises, and Human Rights" Executive Summary of the report: English |
| HRC | 32nd | A/HRC/32/45/Add.3 | Multi-stakeholder engagement across "Protect, Respect and Remedy" Reflections from discussions at the 2015 annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights |
| HRC | 29th | A/HRC/29/28 | Improving policy coherence for inclusive and sustainable development |
| HRC | 26th | A/HRC/26/25 |
Review of the strategic objectives, activities and outcomes of the first three years |
| HRC | 26th | Addendum - Uptake of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: practices and results from a survey of corporations | |
| HRC | 26th | A/HRC/26/25/Add.3 | Addendum - International Expert Workshop (Toronto): "Business Impacts and Non-judicial Access to Remedy: Emerging Global Experience |
| HRC | 23rd | A/HRC/23/32 | Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises |
| HRC | 23rd | A/HRC/23/32/Add.2 | Addendum - Uptake of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: practices and results from pilot surveys of Governments and corporations |
| HRC | 20th | A/HRC/20/29 | Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises |
Working Group reports to the General Assembly
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Bodies |
Session |
Symbol number |
Title |
| GA | 78th | A/78/155 | Extractive sector, just transition and human rights |
| GA | 77th | A/77/201 | Corporate influence in the political and regulatory sphere: Ensuring business practice in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights |
| GA | 76th | A/76/238 | Human rights-compatible International Investment Agreements (IIAs) |
| GA | 75th | A/75/212 | Business, human rights and conflict-affected regions: towards heightened action |
| GA | 74th | A/74/198 | Policy coherence in government action to protect against business-related human rights abuses |
| GA | 73rd | A/73/163 | Corporate human rights due diligence emerging practices, challenges and ways forward |
| GA | 72nd | A/72/162 | Access to effective remedies under the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework |
| GA | 71st | A/71/291 | Addressing the human rights impacts of agro-industrial operations on indigenous and local communities: State duties and responsibilities of business enterprises |
| GA | 70th | A/70/216 | Measuring the implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights |
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| GA | 69th | A/69/263 | National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights |
| GA | 68th | A/68/279 | Business-related impacts on the rights of indigenous peoples |
| GA | 67th | A/67/285 | Developments in the embedding of the Guiding Principles into global governance frameworks |
Reports from the Working Group's sessions
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Bodies |
Session |
Symbol number |
Title |
| WG | 18th | A/HRC/WG.12/18/1 | Outcome of the eighteenth session |
| WG | 17th | A/HRC/WG.12/17/1 | Outcome of the seventeenth session |
| WG | 16th | A/HRC/WG.12/16/1 | Outcome of the sixteenth session |
| WG | 15th | A/HRC/WG.12/15/1 | Outcome of the fifteenth session |
| WG | 14th | A/HRC/WG.12/14/1 | Outcome of the fourteenth session |
| WG | 13th | A/HRC/WG.12/13/1 | Outcome of the thirteenth session |
| WG | 12th | A/HRC/WG.12/12/1 | Outcome of the twelfth session |
| WG | 11th | A/HRC/WG.12/11/1 | Outcome of the eleventh session |
| WG | 10th | A/HRC/WG.12/10/1 | Outcome of the tenth session |
| WG | 9th | A/HRC/WG.12/9/1 | Outcome of the ninth session |
| WG | 8th | A/HRC/WG.12/8/1 | Outcome of the eighth session |
| WG | 7th | A/HRC/WG.12/7/1 | Outcome of the seventh session |
| WG | 6th | A/HRC/WG.12/6/1 | Outcome of the sixth session |
| WG | 5th | A/HRC/WG.12/5/1 | Outcome of the fifth session |
| WG | 4th | A/HRC/WG.12/4/1 | Outcome of the fourth session |
| WG | 3rd | A/HRC/WG.12/3/1 | Outcome of the third session |
| WG | 2nd | A/HRC/WG.12/2/1 | Outcome of the second session |
In addition, the following reports – not authored by the Working Group – on the topic of business and human rights are also available: