Benefits to Your Company
Respecting human rights across a company’s value chain, including conducting effective due diligence, enables companies to understand and anticipate impacts, manage business risk, and meet growing regulatory and stakeholder expectations. The UNGPs provide a globally recognized authoritative framework for integrating respect for human rights into business practices and decision-making.
The Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) is designed to help practitioners within global companies:
Learn from and collaborate with BSR experts and other human rights practitioners across sectors and geographies on implementing the UNGPs and strengthening foundational approaches and responses to emerging issues
Leverage research and benchmarking on current practices to enhance their company’s own human rights policies, management, and reporting
Learn how to build buy-in and internal alignment around their company’s human rights efforts
Develop and maintain a global peer network
How We Work
The HRWG convenes twice per year in three different locations—the Americas, Europe, and Tokyo—for a total of six meetings annually. These meetings cover global as well as regional content. All HRWG members are welcome to attend any session and are encouraged to invite regional colleagues to participate in meetings held in different locations.
The group also hosts six webinars and three virtual workshops per year; shares a monthly newsletter with the latest trends, events, and reports on business and human rights; and maintains an exclusive resource library with relevant materials and recordings.
The group is structured to ensure that companies from all industries and all levels of maturity in their human rights journeys will benefit from participation.
Members are encouraged to leverage the global network for additional opportunities to share and connect with BSR experts and one another.
Video produced by The Maersk Group, a member of the Human Rights Working Group, during a 2022 convening.
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