2018 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights

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Description
The Forum will conclude with statements by key stakeholder constituencies to:

• Highlight key messages from Forum discussions on how to advance corporate respect for human rights and make human rights due diligence part of standard business practice.
• Reiterate the most critical gaps and challenges as well as the most promising innovations, emerging practices and collective action efforts.
• Hear calls for action from diverse stakeholders on the need for speeding and scaling up implementation of all three pillars of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (“Protect, Respect and Remedy”).

The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights that guides and chairs the Forum will wrap up the event by sharing their reflections on key takeaways and implications for the way forward for all stakeholders, including by taking stock of progress toward their “2020 roadmap” presented at the closing of the 2017 Forum.

Key references

• Working Group report on human rights due diligence to the 2018 General Assembly / executive summary 
• Working Group’s ten key recommendations on connecting the Guiding Principles and the SDGs
• Working Group’s “2020 roadmap”