A/HRC/50/56 (i) Consider the creation of funding mechanisms to support civil society engagement on the human rights impacts of emerging technologies; (j) Review barriers in access to judicial remedy in cases involving harm by technology companies and take effective measures to address such barriers; (k) Strengthen the oversight and enforcement capacity of administrative regulatory bodies relevant to the technology sector to enable more effective measures to protect against human rights risks related to it; (l) Take effective measures to ensure that human rights are protected in situations in which States contract with, partner with, license from or support technology companies. 83. National human rights institutions should: (a) Build and expand internal capacity to tackle human rights issues associated with the technology sector and seek cooperation with data protection authorities and related players for coordinated action; (b) Make use of the full extent of their mandates, including by playing a key role in ensuring policy coherence, in accordance with the Guiding Principles, in the regulation of the digital system. 84. Technology companies should: (a) Ensure executive and governance oversight in managing human rightsrelated risks, including by reviewing and addressing business-model-related risks; (b) In line with their corporate responsibility to respect human rights, conduct robust human rights due diligence across their activities and business relationships to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address actual and potential human rights harms, including with regard to human rights risks arising from their business models; (c) Take a proactive role, for example, by means of multi-stakeholder and industry initiatives, to create more transparency and stakeholder knowledge about the actors that make up technology “stacks” and ecosystems; (d) Publicly report on actions to mitigate human rights impacts connected with product or service design, development, sales, deployment and use, and their effectiveness; (e) Establish or participate in effective operational-level grievance mechanisms for individuals and communities that may be adversely impacted by their activities; (f) Engage users of technology, including both public and private actors, and use leverage to effectively prevent and address human rights risks and impacts; (g) Improve engagement with experts and affected stakeholders in all aspects of human rights due diligence, in particular in the global south; (h) Collaborate with Governments, other businesses or business associations, civil society and other stakeholders in exploring ways to enable access to remedy for potential human rights impacts connected to digital technologies; (i) Engage in collective action with peers and other stakeholders to develop and implement standards of business conduct and technological design that will reduce human rights risks, including those associated with business models; (j) Ensure the company plays a constructive role in processes to develop laws and regulations aimed at increasing human rights protections for affected groups that the firm’s business models, intentionally or otherwise, puts at risk. This includes not undermining these processes by lobbying or wider public policy advocacy. 85. Investors should fully embrace their responsibility to integrate human rights considerations in all stages of investing, use their leverage to incentivize technology 16