34/L.50 Rights of the Child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

GE.17-04571(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.25

34/… Rights of the Child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Paragraph 19 should read

19. Encourages the private sector to work to ensure the alignment of their

activities with international human rights law and relevant standards, including those

related to the rights of the child, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights –

and to that end, underlines the imperative need for the elaboration of a legally binding

instrument, consistent 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 the Children’s Rights and Business Principles of the United Nations

Children’s Fund (UNICEF), through the undertaking of child-rights due diligence with a

view to identifying, preventing and mitigating the possible negative impact of their

operations on the enjoyment of the rights of the child;”