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Name of Resource | UN Guiding Principles Assurance Guidance |
Type | Guidance on policy / legislation implementation |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Human Rights Reporting and Assurance Framework Initiative, co-facilitated by Shift and Mazars |
Date of publishing | March 2017 |
Description | This guidance is designed to help expert practitioners ensure that their work plays a valuable role in advancing the protection of workers, communities and other groups affected by business activities, protecting and creating value for the business in the medium to long term. This source offers guidance about the assurance of companies’ human rights performance and reporting. This subject matter guidance serves two purposes: one, to help internal auditors assure companies’ human rights performance, and two, to support external assurance providers’ assurance of companies’ human rights reporting. |
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Name of Resource | UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework with implementation guidance |
Type | Guidance on policy / legislation implementation |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Human Rights Reporting and Assurance Framework Initiative, co-facilitated by Shift and Mazars |
Date of publishing | February 2015 |
Description | The UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework is a comprehensive guidance for companies to report on human rights issues in line with their responsibility to respect human rights. This responsibility is set out in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which constitutes the authoritative global standard in this field. The Reporting Framework provides a concise set of questions to which any company should strive to have answers to in order to know and show that it is meeting its responsibility to respect human rights in practice. It offers companies clear and straightforward guidance on how to answer these questions with relevant and meaningful information about their human rights policies, processes and performance. S ee also: Reporting Insights: https://www.ungpreporting.org/database-analysis/reporting-trends-and-insights/ Maturity Indicators & Methodology: https://www.ungpreporting.org/database-analysis/methodology/ |
Availability | ENG: https://www.ungpreporting.org/wp-content/uploads/UNGPReportingFramework_withguidance2017.pdf |
Name of Resource | United Kingdom Modern Slavery Act Research |
Type | Report/analysis, knowledge hub |
Country / jurisdiction | United Kingdom |
Organization | WikiRate |
Date of publishing | 2015 |
Description | The purpose of the initiative is to spur corporations to be transparent and responsive by making data on their social and environmental impacts useful and available to all. The platform is a place for everyone to bring together information on corporate practices on their response to the United Kingdom Modern Slavery Act, evaluate it, and determine what gaps need to be filled. |
Availability | ENG: http://wikirate.org/United Kingdom_Modern_Slavery_Act_Research# |