Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence for Business in Conflict ...

The guide offers guidance to businesses and other actors on how to meet their responsibilities to carry out a heightened version of human ...

Heightened human rights due diligence strengthens the understanding of the context where businesses operate and ensures that their activities do ...

Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence: Responsible Business in ...

Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence: Responsible Business in Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (CAHRAs). Overview. This is the second ...

The business, human rights and conflict-affected regions project

Background It is well documented that the worst forms of business-related human rights abuse tend to happen in conflict-affected contexts.

UN experts launch new guidance for businesses working in conflict ...

GENEVA (27 July 2022) – Doing business in conflict-affected areas means business enterprises have responsibilities to conduct heightened ...

Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence for Business in Conflict ...

Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence for Business in Conflict-Affected Contexts: A Guide (UNDP and UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, ...

Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence in Practice: Prohibiting or ...

Abstract. Companies operating or seeking to invest in conflict-affected areas are expected to carry out a heightened human rights due ...

UNDP and UN Working Group launch new guide on heightened ...

The Guide provides parameters for business to design and implement effective due diligence measures in contexts affected by armed conflicts.

The UN's Guide to Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence

Identifying and assessing actual and potential conflicts and their potential impact on human rights is the first pillar on which the Guide bases its heightened ...

Heightened human rights due diligence in conflict-affected areas ...

Nations Guiding Principles (UNGPs) and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises- companies as well as their investors have the responsibility to ...

Heightened human rights due diligence: responsible business in ...

Heightened human rights due diligence: responsible business in conflict-affected and high-risk areas ... How does your company escalate human rights due diligence ...

Corporate due diligence in times of armed conflict

cial-procedures/wg-business/climate-change-and-ungps. 4 United Nations Development Programme (2022). Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence for business in con-.

Between Regular and Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence

Ensuring responsible conduct by companies operating in situations of armed conflict or other contexts of widespread violence has been a key ...

Business in Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Contexts | Reports - BSR

To prevent and mitigate human rights risks in high-risk contexts, companies should conduct “heightened” human rights due diligence. Heightened ...

Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence and Leverage is the Key

If an entity is deemed a “failed State”, companies must still respect human rights. They should be careful not to cause, contribute to and/or become directly ...

Conflict-Affected and High Risk Areas

The expectation that both investors and companies undertake heightened human rights due diligence (hHRDD) on investments and business activities in CAHRAs ...

the notion of heightened human rights due diligence

This article aims to examine the business and human rights frameworks applicable in situations of armed conflicts with a particular focus on the UNGPs and the ...

Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence for Business in Conflict ...

The guide offers guidance to businesses and other actors on how to meet their responsibilities to carry out a heightened version of human rights due ...

Academic paper: Companies operating in conflict-affected ...

The concept of heightened human rights due diligence (hHRDD) is often used to address corporate responsibilities in situations of armed conflict. For companies ...

New report shows importance of heightened human rights due ...

The case of the French cement company Lafarge in Syria highlights the need for corporate accountability legislation that includes ...