United Nations Human Rights

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are a set of guidelines for States and companies to prevent, address and remedy human rights abuses committed in business operations.

Use this resource to:

• Strategy: Adopt the standards and practices with regard to business and human rights so as to achieve tangible results for affected individuals and communities, and thereby also contribute to a socially sustainable globalisation.
• Governance: Embed the human rights policy throughout a business’ functions.
• Identify: Understand the responsibility of enterprises to respect human rights, depending on their scale and scope.
• Assess: Implement human rights due diligence.
• Set Targets: Design targets based on human rights due diligence assessment.
• Act: Learn how states and companies can prevent and address negative impacts on human rights by business.
• Monitor: Set up continued human rights due diligence for monitoring purposes.
• Disclose: Make publicly available human rights commitments and processes.