UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
Geneva:
December 4 – 5, 2012
Building Capcity to Apply Principles to Practice:
Developing an agenda for comprehensive
capacity building on Guilding Principles
implementation
By Suon Bunsak, Executive Secretary
Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee - CHRAC
General perception on the
Guiding principles on Business
and Human Rights (GPs)
 A new development of human rights concept
 Little to none knowledge about the GPs amongst
of community, CSOs, Government, Businesses,
Trade unions, Students/academics and media.
 Lack or no making use of GPs
 No or less knowledge on Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) vs Business and Human Rights
Lack of awareness raising
campaigns on GPs
 No advocacy actions by especially affected
communities and CSOs due to the lack of
general knowledge on GPs
 Failure to protect and respect for human
rights by government and businesses due to
their no or little knowledge on the GPs
 No or less pressure exerted on government
to give protection against human rights
abuses and on Businesses to take
responsibility to respect for human rights
Need and priorities:
 Provision of capacity building on GPs, ASEAN
regional human rights mechanisms and other
international human rights standards to
affected communities, CSOs, Government
and Businesses and Trade unions,
students/academics and media
 Information dissemination on GPs general
public
 Supporting to advocacy network
What we do ?
To promote the implementation of GPs,
capacity building interventions on GPs
will be done in three layers:
 Community level
 National level
 Regional level
For community/local level
 Community forum on GPs
 Community dialogue on practices of GPs
 Information dissemination (brochure,
leaflet, poster, picture book, community
radio, community media, radio and TV... )
 Provision of support to community
advocacy network
For national level
 Providing of training and workshop on GPs,
ASEAN human rights mechanisms and other UN
relevant human rights standards for various
stakeholders such CSOs, Government officials,
Businesses, Trade unions, students/academics
and media.
 Joint dialogues amongst of CSOs, Government
officials, Businesses and Trade unions in order
to have a common understanding on the
contents and compliance of GPs
 Making use of mass media for circulation of GPs
For regional level
Organizing of regional capacity
building workshop for related
stakeholders on GPs on business
and human rights, ASEAN human
rights mechanisms and other UN
relevant human rights standards
Organizing of regional exchange
programs
Creation of regional advocacy
network
Important elements in GPs
to be remembered and understood !
The three pillars of GPs:
Remedy
Business:
respect
State:
protect
GPs
Expected advocacy actions of trained
advocates in national level
Legislation and
Policy Making
Government
Clear human
rights obligations
Reduction of
Collusion
Trained
Participant/Advocates
Respect for
Human Rights
Business
enterprises
Mechanism of
Remediation
Expected advocacy actions of trained
advocates in regional and international levels
UN Human Rights
Mechanisms
Monitoring and Urging
for enforcement of GPs
and HR instruments in
national levels
Trained
Participants/Advocates
ASEAN regional Human
Rights Mechanisms
Thank You!