General Assembly 13-6E
Protecting human rights defenders, whistleblowers, complainants and community spokespersons
Adopted (On-going)
| for | 169 | |
| against | 38 | |
| abstain | 7 | |
| spoilt | 0 | |
| Total Vote | 214 | |
To mandate and resource the Secretariat to support and facilitate the members of the RSPO Human Rights Working Group to urgently develop:
- accessible and adequately resourced procedures to allow human rights defenders, whistleblowers and community spokespersons to register their concerns with the Complaints Panel in anonymity and security;
- clear guidelines for RSPO members on how to uphold the rights of human rights defenders, whistle-blowers, complainants and community spokespersons in their operations;
- a proposal for graduated corrective actions to be required of any RSPO members, which act in violation of these norms, to be submitted for adoption by the Board of Governors within 6 months.
- accessible and adequately resourced procedures to allow human rights defenders, whistleblowers and community spokespersons to register their concerns with the Complaints Panel in anonymity and security;
- clear guidelines for RSPO members on how to uphold the rights of human rights defenders, whistle-blowers, complainants and community spokespersons in their operations;
- a proposal for graduated corrective actions to be required of any RSPO members, which act in violation of these norms, to be submitted for adoption by the Board of Governors within 6 months.
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ProponentForest Peoples Programme
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