Reports | Applying the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the ICT Industry | Version 2.0: Ten Lessons Learned
About the Author(s)
Dunstan Allison Hope, Managing Director, Advisory Services
Farid Baddache, Director, Europe
Faris Natour, Director, Human Rights
Publication Date
September 6, 2012
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BSR's Version 2.0 of how to apply the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the ICT industry offers ten lessons learned after a year of evaluation and on-the-ground experience.
In June 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council approved new Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
In August 2011, BSR published a report providing our perspective on how to apply these Guiding Principles to the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. Since then, we've undertaken significant work to put our thinking into practice: We've advised on the writing of human rights policies, facilitated engagements with human rights stakeholders, and undertaken human rights impact assessments (HRIAs).
We're now publishing "Version 2.0" of the report, with the ten key lessons we have learned during this time added to the original text. We also have a plan to include company case studies and more detailed HRIA methodologies in "Version 3.0" of this paper, which we expect to publish in 2013.
The original "Version 1.0" report is available here.
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 →
Farid Baddache , Director, Europe
With more than twelve years of CSR strategy and management experience in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America, Farid brings his global expertise to BSR's Paris office as a leading authority in sustainability... Read more →
Faris Natour , Director, Human Rights
Faris leads BSR’s human rights practice, advising companies on human rights strategy, policy development, human rights impact assessments, and other elements of human rights due diligence... Read more →
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