10th UN Forum on business and human rights

A RECORDING OF THIS SESSION IS AVAILABLE HERE.

About this session
This session asks how to get closer to realizing full implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) over the next decade. It will feature statements by Government representatives on how to:

• Increase the pace of UNGPs implementation over the next decade
• Ensure follow-up of recommendations in the UNGPs 10+ Roadmap for the next decade of business and human rights

Background
As the UNGPs turned 10 in June 2021, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights mandated by the Human Rights Council to promote dissemination and implementation of the UNGPs worldwide, 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. Yet, considerable challenges remain when it comes to coherent implementation with respect to ensuring better protection and prevention of adverse human rights impacts, with particular attention to the most marginalized and vulnerable, and to ensuring access to remedy for harms that occur.

Following on from the stocktaking, the Working Group is launching its UNGPs 10+ Roadmap for the next decade, complementing the assessment of the first decade with forward-looking recommendations for the next one. 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 and for progressively getting closer to fuller UNGPs realization. Each action area identifies priority goals for what needs to happen and supporting actions to be taken by States and businesses as well as other key stakeholders, all playing a role in realizing UNGPs implementation. Its ultimate objective echoes that of the UNGPs themselves, that they should be translated to practice so as to “achieve tangible results for affected individuals and communities, and thereby also contributing to a socially sustainable globalization.”

The stocktaking and the Roadmap are results of the Working Group’s UNGPs 10+ project, which has been supported by a wide-ranging multi-stakeholder consultation process.

The Working Group has identified eight action areas for moving faster and with greater ambition to support the overall urgent need for more coherent action. The Roadmap elaborates on the priority goals connected to each action areas, setting out what needs to happen over the next decade to scale up UNGPs integration and implementation and corresponding supporting actions to be taken by States and businesses, as well as other stakeholders.

Read the Roadmap here: ohchr.org/ungps10plusroadmap
The following States and regional organizations intervened in the session. Statements from other States are also posted on this page.

• Belgium
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• EU
• Finland
• Germany
• India
• Indonesia
• Kenya
• Malaysia
• Pakistan
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Thailand
• Uganda
• UK
• USA