Reports | Applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the ICT Industry | Version 1.0
About the Author(s)
Dunstan Allison Hope, Managing Director, Advisory Services
Farid Baddache, Director, Europe
Publication Date
August 16, 2011
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In June 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council approved new Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. As a result, more clarity exists today than ever before on governments’ duty to protect human rights and the business responsibility to respect human rights.
BSR is exploring how information and communications technology (ICT) companies can apply the Guiding Principles, and have proposed four priorities:
1. Engage with users
2. Undertake due diligence on business relationships.
3. Understand opportunities for leverage.
4. Increase comparability in human rights reporting.
The report will be updated with new versions after workshops, discussions and projects with ICT companies and stakeholders.
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 →
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