Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - Uzbekistan presented its national experience in Geneva during the United Nations Annual Forum on Entrepreneurship and Human Rights, Dunyo reports with reference to the Press Service of the National Center for Human Rights of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NCHR).

This forum is a global platform for summing up and exchanging experience in the implementation of the Guiding Principles of Entrepreneurship in the field of human rights.

The session “National Human Rights Institutions and Ensuring Access to Remedies” presented the experience of Uzbekistan in state support for the development and further strengthening of the status of national human rights institutions.

The international community was informed about the activities of the Business Ombudsman, strengthening the status of the National Center for Human Rights of the Republic of Uzbekistan as a national reporting mechanism and follow-up actions.

It was also noted that two publications on the issues of entrepreneurial activity and human rights were translated into Uzbek, and the experience of foreign countries on the development and adoption of the National Plan of Action on Entrepreneurship and Human Rights is constantly being studied. The preparation of this plan was also reflected in the Voluntary Obligations of the Republic of Uzbekistan, developed in connection with the country’s nomination of its candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council.

The eighth UN annual forum on business and human rights was held in Geneva (Switzerland) at the UN headquarters on 25-27 November.

Since 2012, the Forum is the largest annual international meeting on business and human rights. For three days each year, more than 2,000 experts, practitioners, and leaders discuss relevant measures and possible solutions to business and human rights issues.

As the Chair of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights Elbietta Karska noted during the Forum, the Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights are the Roadmap for the global economy, which stipulates that states must protect and companies must respect human rights, people whose rights were violated by the state and business structures should have access to legal remedies and the ability to receive proportionate compensation.