Name of Resource | Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights |
Type | Policy, Recommendation |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights |
Initiative launch date | 2011 |
Description | The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) is an instrument consisting of 31 principles implementing the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ framework on this issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. Developed by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, the Guiding Principles provided the first global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse impacts on human rights linked to business activity, and continue to provide the internationally accepted framework for enhancing standards and practice regarding business and human rights. On 16 June 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously endorsed the Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights, making the framework the first corporate human rights responsibility initiative to be endorsed by the United Nations. The UNGPs encompass three pillars outlining how states and businesses should implement the framework: the state duty to protect human rights; the corporate responsibility to respect human rights; access to remedy for victims of business-related abuses. |
Availability | ARA, DEU, ENG, FRA, RUS, SPA, ZHO: https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/2 |
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Name of Resource | Principles for responsible contracts. Integrating the management of human rights risks into state-investor contract negotiations. Guidance for Negotiators |
Type | Guidance on policy / legislation implementation |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
Initiative launch date | 2015 |
Description | This publication identifies 10 key principles to help integrate the management of human rights risks into contract negotiations on investment projects between host State entities and foreign business investors. This publication has been developed specifically for use by state and business negotiators with a view to ensuring that projects bring benefits to people and that their potential adverse impact is managed appropriately. It should also be of interest to those who are not directly involved in the negotiations, such as oversight bodies, civil society organizations, individuals and communities that may be affected by investment projects, institutional and private lenders, and insurers. |
Availability | ENG: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Principles_ResponsibleContracts_HR_PUB_15_1_EN.pdf |
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Name of Resource | UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework |
Type | Risk assessment |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
Initiative launch date | 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. The Reporting Framework provides a concise set of questions to which any company should strive to have answers 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. |
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Name of Resource | Guidance on National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights |
Type | Guidance on policy / legislation implementation |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights |
Initiative launch date | November 2016 |
Description | This guidance of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (UNWG) provides recommendations on the development, implementation and update of National Action Plans (NAPs) on Business and Human Rights. The document is designed to serve as a reference guide for all stakeholders involved in NAP processes. It is based on the recognition that there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to NAPs. NAPs may be stand-alone documents or integrated with other relevant frameworks. |
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