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<b>Subject:</b> [WUNRN] UN Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations & Other Business Enterprises with Respect to Human Rights<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0072C6">UN Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Respect to Human Rights<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">At its 26th session, on 26 June 2014, the Human Rights Council adopted </span><a href="http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/RES/26/9"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#663399">resolution
26/9</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> by which it decided “to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights,
whose mandate shall be to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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session</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">, which was held from 6 to 10 July 2015, the open-ended intergovernmental working group presented its report to the Council at its thirty-first session </span><a href="http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/31/50"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#663399">A/HRC/31/50</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">In resolution 26/9, the Human Rights Council further decided that "the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the open-ended intergovernmental
working group should prepare elements for the draft legally binding instrument for substantive negotiations at the commencement of the third session of the working group on the subject, taking into consideration the discussions held at its first two sessions."
This session took place from <b>23 to 27 October 2017. </b>To consult the draft report and for more information please consult the dedicated web page for the </span><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/WGTransCorp/Session3/Pages/Session3.aspx"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#663399">third
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Draft Link to Full 14-Page Draft Document – September 2017:</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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