Human rights due diligence consulting
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We help businesses develop robust human rights due diligence systems that embed human rights into their core operations.
Our experts provide strategic guidance for companies at all levels of value chains to help address complex human rights challenges in their supply chains.
Comprehensive HRDD services
We offer a range of Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) services to help companies ensure that workers associated with their operations and supply chains work under safe, fair and legal conditions. We support companies at all levels of HRDD maturity.
1. Embed human rights in business management systems
Embedding human rights in your company means making your human rights commitments a part of day-to-day operational reality across your organization. We help our clients integrate respect for human rights into their governance structures and core business functions, strengthening accountability in critical areas such as procurement and supplier management.
Examples of services
- HRDD benchmarking and system assessment
- Policies, codes of conduct and performance standards
- Ethical recruitment guidance
- Responsible purchasing practices and tools
- Supplier risk screening and evaluation
2. Assess human rights risks and harms
Assessing human rights risks and harms throughout your global supply chains requires visibility into complex networks of suppliers and workplaces, as well as contextual understanding of factors driving labor violations and ways they can be prevented.
Examples of services
- Country and sector risk assessments
- Root cause analysis
- Human rights saliency assessments
3. Cease, prevent and mitigate human rights risks and harms
Ceasing harmful practices and preventing and mitigating human rights risks are key to turning insights into meaningful action. We help our clients develop and implement interventions that address immediate concerns while building systemic safeguards to prevent future risks in your facilities and supply chain.
Examples of services
- Origin-level or sector-level action planning
- Performance monitoring frameworks and tools
- Supplier improvement programs
- Customized in-person or virtual training
4. Track and improve human rights performance
Effective tracking of HRDD activities helps to ensure that they stay on time and on track and enables course-correction where needed. We help you monitor whether your interventions are appropriate and effective, with special attention to impacts on individuals and groups that are most vulnerable to human rights abuses.
Examples of services
5. Remediate human rights harms
Even with solid HRDD practices, human rights harms may occur in complex global supply chains. We help you to provide remediation to affected stakeholders when your company has caused or contributed to human rights harms.
Examples of services
- Reporting and response protocols
- Remediation processes
6. Report on progress
With emerging mandatory frameworks like the EU CSRD, we help you develop reporting approaches that satisfy regulatory requirements while effectively communicating human rights progress to diverse stakeholders.
Examples of services
- Report review and support
- Data presentation and storytelling
Who we work with
Leading brands and multinational companies choose us as their strategic partner for human rights due diligence.
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