BSR Insight | Draft Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the UN 'Protect, Respect, and Remedy' Framework
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Dunstan Allison Hope, Managing Director, Advisory Services
Publication Date
December 14, 2010
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Last month, UN Special Representative for Business and Human Rights John Ruggie published a draft of "Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the UN 'Protect, Respect, and Remedy' Framework." This framework is quickly emerging as the global standard for managing corporate human rights impacts.
The principles provide recommendations and commentary for how companies can put the framework into practice. Recommendations include:
- Establishing a human rights policy that stipulates expectations for staff and business partners, is developed in consultation with internal and external experts, and is approved at the most senior level at the company.
- Carrying out human rights impact assessments to identify and evaluate actual and potential adverse human rights impacts of business activities and relationships.
- Developing structures and processes for the internal management of human rights.
- Tracking performance and publically communicating impacts.
- Providing or cooperating in remediation in cases where the company is found responsible for adverse human rights impacts.
A forum will be available until January 31, 2011, to submit your own views and input on the draft. BSR will be making its own submission to the forum, drawing on our experience addressing human rights challenges with member companies.
About the Author(s)
Dunstan Allison Hope, Managing Director, Advisory Services
Dunstan works with a diverse range of companies—including those in the information and communications technology (ICT), consumer products, and heavy manufacturing sectors—on corporate responsibility issues such as human rights, reporting, sustainability strategy, and stakeholder engagement... Read more →
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