Human Rights Reporting: The UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework
helps business enterprises to understand what good disclosure on human rights looks like, and therefore what content businesses should include when reporting on human rights. As the Reporting Framework maps well to the expectations of the UN Guiding Principles themselves, it is also a useful tool for conducting a gap assessment against the UNGPs
The “Doing business with respect for human rights” guidance
(developed by Shift)
provides practical, plain-language advice, experiences and insights for businesses to help them get started with identifying and managing their human rights risks
The Ethical Trading Initiative
is an alliance of companies, trade unions and NGOs that promotes respect for workers’ rights around the globe. The ETI Base Code
is founded on the conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and is an internationally recognised code of labour practice while the ETI’s Base Code Guidance: Modern Slavery guide for business is available
Stronger Together
is a British multi-stakeholder business-led initiative aimed at reducing modern slavery. It has developed a number of resources which are available
The Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI)
has developed the GBI Business Practice Portal.
The Portal is an online ‘by business, for business’ resource that provides access to examples of GBI members’ human rights-related practices, plain-language summaries of relevant concepts from the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and short videos of business practitioners describing how they approach different aspects of this work
A number of CEOs of leading companies have also partnered with Shift and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to produce a CEO Guide to Human Rights
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
is an organisation dedicated to advancing human rights in business and eradicating abuse. The Centre tracks the human rights policy and performance of over 9,000 business enterprises in over 180 countries, making information publicly available. The organisation seeks to amplify the voices of the vulnerable and human rights advocates in civil society, media, business enterprises, and governments
Benchmarks for businesses
The Danish Institute for Human Rights
has developed a platform for human rights indicators
for business that includes assessment questions as well as cases studies on the application of the human rights compliance assessment indicators in various contexts by various stakeholders
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
is an organisation dedicated to advancing human rights in business and eradicating abuse. The Centre tracks the human rights policy and performance of over 9000 business enterprises in over 180 countries, making information publicly available. The organisation seeks to amplify the voices of the vulnerable, and human rights advocates in civil society, media, business enterprises, and governments