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Human rights due diligence
What does this mean for your organisation?

Where can the relevant human rights due diligence guidance and frameworks be found?

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This page contains two types of sources. Firstly, sources explicitly mentioned on the previous pages (“what?”, “why?” and “how?”), with their corresponding hyperlinks for further consultation, are arranged by the institution that released. Secondly, there is a bibliography of sources consulted to draft the tool, which can be useful for further inquiry about the topic.

United Nations (UN)

Human rights due diligence (HRDD)

UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights 2011

The Corporate responsibility to respect Human Rights 2012

UNGP Reporting Framework

UN Global Compact Sustainable Supply Chains website

A Structured Process To Prioritize Supply Chain Human Rights Risks 2015

Supply chain sustainability – a practical guide for continuous improvement 2015

UN Global Compact Model 2010

Human rights impact assessments (HRIA)

UNICEF Children’s Rights in Impact Assessments 2013

Human Rights Impact Assessments. A Study commissioned by the Nordic Trust Fund and The World Bank 2013

IFC Performance standards on environmental and social sustainability 2012

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, 2011 edition

Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct 2018

European Union (EU)

Human rights due diligence (HRDD)

EU Questionnaire to raise SME awareness of CSR 2015

EU Directive on Non-financial reporting 2014/95/EU 2014

Belgium

National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights 2017

Belgian Corporate Governance Code 2009

Initiatives from other countries

Human rights due diligence (HRDD)

France – Duty of vigilance law 2017

United Kingdom – Modern Slavery Act 2015

Netherlands – Child Labour Due Diligence Bill 2015

Human rights impact assessments (HRIA)

The Danish Institute for Human Rights - HRIA Guidance and Toolbox 2015

Institute for Human Rights and Business resource center on supply chains

Non- state guidelines and reports

Human rights due diligence (HRDD)

CSR Europe

CSR Europe’s Toolbox – User Manuel 2013

Blue print for Embedding Human Rights in Key Company Functions 2016

British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Norton Rose Fulbright

Making sense of managing human rights issues in supply chains 2018

Human rights impact assessments (HRIA)

IMPACT Project Consortium, funded by the European Union

The Practitioners Handbook - From CSR to CIAM: Corporate Impact Assessment and Management, the Maturity and Integration Assessment 2014

BSR

Conducting an effective human rights impact assessment 2013

Oxfam and FIDH

Oxfam and FIDH “Getting it Right” tool 2011

References

Aets, study funded by the European Commission (2016), Study on the responsible management of the supply chain in the garment sector
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, Human Rights Due Diligence Section
Danish Institute for Human Rights, Sector-wide impact assessments
Global Compact Network Netherlands, Oxfam, Shift, (2016), Doing business with respect for human rights
LeBaron, G., Lister, J. & Dauvergne, P. (2017). Governing Global Supply Chain Sustainability through the Ethical Audit Regime. Journal Globalizations Volume 14, Issue 6.
Malloy, M., United Nations Global Compact (2017), Addressing Adverse Human Rights Impacts Connected to Product Misuse. A Good Practice Note endorsed by the United Nations Global Compact Human Rights and Labour Working Group on 31 May 2017
OECD, SIPA Columbia (2016), Quantifying the Costs, Benefits and Risks of Due Diligence for Responsible Business Conduct Framework and Assessment Tool for Companies
Smit, L., United Nations Global Compact (2017), Human Rights good practice for business operating in areas with violent crime. A Good Practice Note endorsed by the UN Global Compact Human Rights and Labour Working Group on 31 May 2017
The Economist Intelligence Unit (2017) No more excuses. Responsible supply chains in a globalised world
UN Global Compact Network Germany (2016), Assessing human rights risks and impacts
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (update August 2018), Analysis of the Business and Human Rights Landscape

What does this mean for your organsation?

Large corporations

Human rights due diligence is the process that businesses should carry out to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address actual and potential adverse human rights.

Businesses should manage their entire supply chains responsibly, meaning that they should ensure that every relationship in their supply chain respects human rights.

Human rights due diligence is not the same as the investigations undertaken by businesses prior to signing contracts or making investments. Human rights due diligence is concerned with impacts on people, not the company.

Small and medium-sized corporations

Human rights due diligence is the process that organisations should carry out to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address actual and potential adverse human rights impacts in their own operations, their supply chain and other relationships.

The extent of the human rights risks, not the size of the business, determines the responsibility to conduct due diligence.

Small and medium-sized corporations can carry out due diligence in collaboration, for instance through multi-stakeholder and industry initiatives. However, participation in an initiative does not shift responsibility from the business to the initiative for adverse impacts that the business causes, contributes to, or to which it is directly linked.

non-profit corporations

Human rights due diligence is a risk management tool that is equally relevant for non-governmental organisations and universities.

Stakeholder engagement is a required action throughout the due diligence process, because due diligence is about the people that are affected or could be affected by an organisation.

state-owned corporations

In its National Action Plan, Belgium promotes socially responsible public businesses. Particular attention is paid to how public businesses can integrate and promote respect for human rights within their organisation through tools such as reporting and due diligence.

Businesses should manage their entire supply chains responsibly, meaning that they should ensure that every relationship in their supply chain respects human rights.

public entities

The aim of due diligence is to allow organisations to manage risks, not to guarantee 100% risk-free activities and supply chains.

Toolbox Human Rights

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Human rights due diligence
What does this mean for your organisation?

Where can the relevant human rights due diligence guidance and frameworks be found?

CSR Europe

British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Norton Rose Fulbright

Shift

Institute for Human Rights and Business

SOMO

IMPACT Project Consortium, funded by the European Union

BSR

Oxfam and FIDH

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Where can the relevant human rights due diligence guidance and frameworks be found?

CSR Europe

British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Norton Rose Fulbright

Shift

Institute for Human Rights and Business

SOMO

IMPACT Project Consortium, funded by the European Union

BSR

Oxfam and FIDH

Developed for

Developed by

With feedback from

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Human rights due diligence
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