Toolbox Human Rights

Although states are the only parties responsible for complying with human rights law at the international level, organisations and individuals must comply with the human rights law in force in the territory where they carry out their activities. 

Organisations, independently of their size and legal nature, must know and comply with their human rights obligations. When they violate human rights law, they must redress or compensate the damage caused.  

Human rights should always be respected (although in exceptional circumstances the state can limit them or progressively fulfil rights that have budgetary implications). This means that an adverse human rights impact caused in a specific area or by a specific activity cannot be compensated by a benefit or a redress provided in another. 

Although states are the only parties responsible for complying with human rights law at the international level, organisations and individuals must comply with the human rights law in force in the territory where they carry out their activities. 

Organisations, independently of their size and legal nature, must know and comply with their human rights obligations. When they violate human rights law, they must redress or compensate the damage caused.  

Human rights should always be respected (although in exceptional circumstances the state can limit them or progressively fulfil rights that have budgetary implications). This means that an adverse human rights impact caused in a specific area or by a specific activity cannot be compensated by a benefit or a redress provided in another. 

Although states are the only parties responsible for complying with human rights law at the international level, organisations and individuals must comply with the human rights law in force in the territory where they carry out their activities. 

Organisations, independently of their size and legal nature, must know and comply with their human rights obligations. When they violate human rights law, they must redress or compensate the damage caused.  

Human rights should always be respected (although in exceptional circumstances the state can limit them or progressively fulfil rights that have budgetary implications). This means that an adverse human rights impact caused in a specific area or by a specific activity cannot be compensated by a benefit or a redress provided in another. 

The state-business nexus covers the main aspects of the state’s human rights duties when it interacts with economic actors. When the state owns corporations, they must also respect human rights on Belgian territory, as well as in the EU and other countries. 

Organisations, independently of their size and legal nature, must know and comply with their human rights obligations. When they violate human rights law, they must redress or compensate the damage caused.  

Human rights should always be respected (although in exceptional circumstances, the state can limit them or progressively fulfil rights that have budgetary implications). This means that an adverse human rights impact caused in a specific area or by a specific activity cannot be compensated by a benefit or a redress provided in another. 

As the state is the main party responsible for the respect, protection and fulfilment of the human rights of all persons in its jurisdiction, it has concrete duties derived from international and national rules and standards.

The state must take the measures necessary to prevent the actions or omissions of its public entities or of private organisations and persons from causing adverse human rights impacts. These obligations can be concretised through policy, legislative, administrative or adjudicative actions.