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.

Availability

ENG: https://www.ungpreporting.org/assurance/