Human Rights Due Diligence & Impact Assessment
4 days ago · As set out in the UN Guiding Principles, human rights due diligence is a process for identifying, preventing, mitigating, and accounting for human rights impacts.This includes both actual impacts occurring in the present and potential impacts that could occur in the future. Human rights due diligence is not an end in itself, but a means to an end, which is respecting human rights and ...
UNGPs Guidance & Implementation - Business & Human Rights …
This section features guidance on how companies and governments should implement the UN Guiding Principles. Under the UNGPs, companies should: express their commitment to respect human rights through a policy statement; conduct human rights due diligence; and remediate negative impacts they have caused or contributed to.. One of the key concepts set out in the UNGPs as part of companies ...
2025: A year of new challenges and opportunities for the movement
Dec 18, 2024 · Insisting human rights be at the heart of business is not for the faint-hearted. The last year has seen moments of advance and satisfaction, such as Europe’s approval of mandatory corporate due diligence for human rights and the environment (CSDDD), alongside moments of fear and peril, such as the US election results, the disappointment of COP29, and the rising number of attacks on human ...
Background & History of the Guiding Principles - Business
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Latest from the UN Business and Human Rights Forum 2024
Nov 27, 2024 · The 13th annual UN Business and Human Rights Forum takes place from 25 to 27 November in Geneva, and is the world's largest annual gathering on business and human rights with more than 2,000 participants.. Our team is reporting live throughout the event with a series of audio posts giving our perspective on conversations and issues arising – but even more importantly, we’re also speaking ...
About Us - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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Annual reports - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Jan 18, 2025 · Annual Impact Report 2023/24. This year the Resource Centre’s Global Team, in over 30 locations worldwide, has worked to deliver solidarity for those facing repression, insights and propositions for those developing policy, and evidence for those seeking accountability – from repressive supply chains in Myanmar; to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, to the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples ...
[PDF] The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: …
Jan 16, 2025 · In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously endorsed the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, a set of guidelines for States and companies to prevent and address human rights abuses committed in business operations.
Report: analysis of human rights due diligence in supply chains
Jan 17, 2025 · Making sense of managing human rights issues in supply chains: 2018 report and analysis, May 2018. The UNGPs provide for supply chain HRDD which extends beyond the company to third parties...[and] has caused a shift in social expectations, regulatory reforms and corporate behaviour...However, the concept of supply chain HRDD is new, and even the leading companies are only beginning with their ...
Mandatory due diligence - Business & Human Rights Resource …
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