Human Rights
Managing your impact on people
Creating a better world for all
The business and human rights agenda has evolved significantly in recent years, and there is now global recognition that business is a vehicle for the promotion and realisation of human rights.
In 2011, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) provided the first global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse impacts on human rights linked to business activity. These principles continue to provide the internationally-accepted framework for enhancing standards and practices regarding business and human rights.
We work with businesses to shape policy, advance practice and strengthen accountability to integrate respect for human rights into business decision-making.
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Our Approach
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We support businesses to integrate human rights considerations into existing management systems and procurement strategies.
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We use the UN Guiding Principles as a framework to assist businesses to identify and assess potential and actual human rights risks and impacts.
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We undertake training needs analysis to help businesses align training requirements to key roles and deliver face-to-face and online training and scenario-based learning.
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We help businesses identify high-risk suppliers and business partners and undertake assessments and audits to identify and address human rights risks across all operations.
Innovative tools
Our range of proven tools and offerings will help you identify, manage and respond to human rights risks across your operations and supply chain.
Three key tools are outlined here - for more information on our full range of tools please contact us.
Human Rights Gap Analysis
Based on the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights our gap analysis tool identifies gaps and risks in the key areas of policy and commitment, due diligence and remediation.
Delivered F2F or online, internal stakeholders answer a series of questions that produces a visual ‘heat map’ of how effectively an organisation is managing human rights risks.
The output informs the development of a tailored action plan mapped to the requirements of the UNGPs.
Prioritising rights-holders
Prioritising rights-holders potentially impacted by a business’s operations is a critical step in developing an effective engagement strategy.
Our stakeholder prioritisation tool enables organisations to:
Identify relevant rights-holders and stakeholders within an operational context.
Prioritise rights-holders and stakeholders.
Plot rights holders and stakeholders on an engagement matrix and develop an action plan.
Policy Development
We have developed human rights policies for individual organisations, business networks and industry sectors.
Policies reflect leading practice and refer to international business and human rights standards such as the UN Guiding Principles, International Labor Organisation (ILO) and Sustainable Development Goals.
Our process enables businesses to develop tailored policies collaboratively with representatives from across the organisation.
“Understanding how your business affects human rights and using that knowledge to shape appropriate policies and practices is crucial to achieving what should be the goal of all corporations - sustainable growth.”
— Cherie Blaire