Over 100 organisations urge the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to fully implement the mandate provided in HRC resolution 31/36. They call for the release and transmission of the data, including the names of companies involved in the specified activities, to the Human Rights Council, so that it may be considered at the Council’s 42nd session in September 2019.
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