A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

financing of reasonable buffer stocks by international institutions.” 444
• The international community should continue its commitment to the Millennium Declaration
and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. This includes, in particular, those
commitments to address the needs of least developed states:
o Adopt a “policy of duty- and quota-free access for essentially all exports from the
least developed countries;”
o “implement the enhanced programme of debt relief for the heavily indebted poor
countries without further delay and to agree to cancel all official bilateral debts of
those countries in return for their making demonstrable commitments to poverty
reduction;” and
o “grant more generous development assistance, especially to countries that are
genuinely making an effort to apply their resources to poverty reduction.” 445
• Work toward full implementation of the Recommendations of the Millennium Development
Goals Africa Steering Group.
The Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises
with Regard to Human Rights (the “Norms”) set forth provisions for transnational businesses and
corporations to promote and protect human rights, which include rights related to equal opportunity
and non-discriminatory treatment, security of persons, rights of workers, respect for national
sovereignty and human rights, and consumer and environmental protection. The Norms provide a
guiding framework with regard to transnational business entities, and The Advocates recommends
that:
• The international community, as individual states, should promote and protect human rights
as recognized in international and national law, which includes “ensuring that transnational
corporations and other business enterprises respect human rights.” 446
o The international community, as individual states, should “establish and reinforce
the necessary legal and administrative framework for ensuring that the Norms and
other relevant national and international laws are implemented by transnational
corporations and other business enterprises.” 447
• The international community should conduct “periodic monitoring and verification” of
transnational corporations and other business enterprises that is “transparent and independent
and take into account input from stakeholders (including non governmental organizations)
and as a result of complaints of violations of these Norms.” 448
The Advocates supports the recommendations made to the international community by the U.N.
Mission in Liberia in its Report on the Human Rights Situation in Liberia: November 2007 – June
2008 and recommends that:
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