34/L.48 Right to work

GE.17-04568(E)

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Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session

27 February–24 March 2017

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

South Africa: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/34/L.22

34/… Right to work

Paragraph 22 should read

22. Highlights the vital role of the private sector in generating new investments,

job opportunities and financing for development and in advancing efforts towards the full

realization of the right to work and the promotion of inclusive, sustained economic growth,

full and productive employment and decent work for all, noting the multi-year strategy of

the United Nations Global Compact to drive business awareness and action in support of

achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, and recalling the need to promote

the implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – and to this

end, underlines the imperative need for the elaboration of a legally binding instrument, in

accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 26/9 of 26 June 2014, on the activities of

transnational corporations and other business enterprises, holding these entities accountable

in international human rights and humanitarian law for abuses and violations of human

rights – and of the Women’s Empowerment Principles established by the United Nations

Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the Global

Compact;