Project Publications
A Best
Practice Guide to the HRCA
Aim for human rights
(previously known as HOM) has published a best practice
guide to the human rights compliance assessment (HRCA),
which discusses the implementation of the HRCA tool in
different companies. The guide draws attention to the
experiences of several multinational companies and civil
society organizations and discusses the benefits, challenges
and opportunities of using the HRCA tool.
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HRCA Quick Check (Ukraine)
A Ukrainian translation of the Quick Check
is now also available. It was financed by the Centre for
Corporate Citizenship, Kyiv, Urkaine.
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HRCA Quick Check (Dutch Translation)
The Dutch translation of the Quick Check was
financed by
Dutch NGO 'Aim for Human Rights' (previously 'HOM').
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HRCA Quick Check Booklet
The Human Rights Compliance Assessment is a diagnostic tool designed to promote corporate social responsibility by providing companies with useful information about how to avoid human rights violations in all aspects of their operations. It is a practical tool which has been mapped against the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and can assist companies with GRI and Global Compact reporting.
The HRCA 'Quick Check' comprises approximately 10% of all the questions contained in the entire HRCA database and relates to some of the most essential human rights issues a company must consider in relation to its activities. This check was developed in cooperation with a group of development finance institutes to provide companies and investment funds with a condensed assessment covering key human rights issues.
95 pp. August 2006.
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HRCA Quick Check Booklet (Chinese Translation)
The Chinese translation of the Quick Check was developed in cooperation with the CSR consulting company SynTao Co. Ltd and the Institute of Contemporary Observation (ICO), one of China’s leading NGOs concerned with CSR and labour rights.
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HRCA Quick Check Booklet (Spanish Translation)
The Spanish translation of the quick check was developed in cooperation with Esade Business School and the School of Peace Culture at Barcelona’s Autonomous University.
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Menneskerettigheder og Virksomheder –
Institut for Menneskerettigheders HRCA Quick Check
HRCA (Human Rights Compliance Assessment) er et redskab, som er lavet for at hjælpe virksomhederne med at identificere eventuelle krænkelser af menneskerettighederne, der opstår som følge af deres aktiviteter, og som rammer ansatte, lokalbefolkningen eller andre interessenter. HRCA Quick Check er en mindre omfattende udgave af det samlede HRCA redskab og indeholder ca. 10 % af de spørgsmål, der findes i den samlede HRCA-database. HRCA Quick Check kan bruges til at introducere de mest fundamentale menneskerettighedsspørgsmål som en virksomhed bør være opmærksom på i forbindelse med sine aktiviteter. HRCA Quick Check er udarbejdet i samarbejde med Industrialiseringsfonden for Udviklingslandene og dennes søsterinstitutioner for på den måde at give virksomheder og investeringsfonde en sammenfattet vurdering, der dækker de vigtigste menneskeretsspørgsmål.
Oversat og udgivet af LO.
112 pp. June 2005.
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Complicity in Human Rights
Violations: A Responsible Business Approach to Suppliers
This Working Paper is the result of
discussions with select company members of the Confederation of
Danish Industries, who were assembled in a series of meetings
held by the Human Rights & Business Project to discuss one of
the most complex human rights problems facing companies today:
complicity in human rights violations committed by suppliers.
The resulting framework is intended to serve as general guidance
for companies, both Danish and foreign, wishing to develop more
formal due diligence policies on supply-side complicity, or to
enlarge on existing policies from an objective, ethically
balanced perspective.
20 pp. 2006.
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Defining the Scope of Business Responsibility for Human Rights Abroad
This brochure offered by the Human Rights & Business Project presents a framework for viewing business obligations towards human rights. The brochure addresses two basic questions that lie at the heart of the dispute between companies and human rights groups:
1) What defines businesses’ human rights obligations;
2) How far do these obligations extend.
12 pp. 2001.
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Deciding whether to do Business in States with Bad Government
This brochure offered by the Human Rights & Business Project uses a decision-mapping framework to help companies consider human rights questions more systematically before undertaking operations in states with poor human rights records.
28 pp. 2001.
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Corporate Codes of Conduct in Denmark – An Examination of their CSR Content
The study examines the content of Danish codes of conduct. While several studies have been conducted into the content of codes of conduct at the international level, we know very little about the exact formulation of social and environmental requirements in Danish codes. Do they provide an adequate coverage of core labour standards? Are the codes detailed or not? What international standards do they reference? What does the text reveal about the efforts undertaken to implement the codes into practice? This report addresses these and other questions based on an in-depth qualitative study of a sample of Danish corporate codes. The study benchmarks the performance of Danish codes against: 1) international norms and standards on human rights and labour; 2) codes of conduct developed in cooperation between trade unions, NGOs and companies; 3) codes of conduct issued by foreign corporations. The report contains a summary in Danish
The report was prepared for the Confederation of Danish Industries by Rasmus Abildgaard Kristensen of the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
40 pp. June 2005.
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Strengthening Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Supply Chains
Study on barriers to the achievement of better social and environmental performance at the supplier level in developing countries. The report was prepared for the World Bank Group by the Danish Institute for Human Rights, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Denmark), and Business for Social Responsibility (USA).
67 pp. October 2003.
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The Promise of a Human Rights and
Business Commission
This report reviews existing resolution mechanisms for disputes involving business and human rights and recommends the establishment of a Human Rights and Business Commission (HRBC) that aims to fill the gap in existing mechanisms and seeks to resolve human rights and business disputes in an expeditious and effective manner. Because the Commission will be unable to make legally enforceable decisions, it complements adjudication and the other methods described above, and serves as an alternative to them in places where those mechanisms are weak or do not exist. The report was commissioned by the Human Rights & Business Project at the Danish Institute for Human Rights in conjunction with the Confederation of Danish Industries and the Industrialization Fund for Developing Countries (IFU). The report was written by three masters degree candidates at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University under the guidance of Mr. Liam Mahony
42 pp. January 2003.
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Country Risk Assessment
Articles
- Rasmus Abildgaard Kristensen, 'A place to stand upon: the development of a human rights compliance assessment for companies’, Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, Vol. 6, No. 3 (2005). [Download PDF]
- Morten Kjærum, 'The desktop doctor that can now check up on your company's moral health', Global Compact Report, July 2004. [Download PDF]
Press Releases
- Press Release on the International Launch of the HRCA Quick Check, Shanghai, UN Global Compact Meeting, 2 December 2005 [Download PDF].
- Press release on the CSR Compass, 15 June 2005, 'Nyt etik værktøj til danske virksomheder'. [Download].
- Press release on the Global Compact, 24 June, 2004, 'Danmark en af de største bidragydere til Global Compact', Danish Institute for Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Confederation of Danish Industries. [Download].
- Press release on India Country Risk Assessment, November 2005. [Download PDF ]
Other Publications
- Rasmus Abildgaard Kristensen & Christina Schultz , ‘Human Rights in a Corporate Perspective’, in Mette Morsing & Christina Thyssen (red.), Values and Responsibility: The Case of Denmark (Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur, 2003).
- Margaret Jungk , ‘A Practical Guide to Addressing Human Rights Concerns for Companies Operating Abroad’, in M. Addo (eds.), Human Rights Standards and the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations ( the Hague : Klüwer, 1999).
- ‘The Human Rights Compliance Assessment’ in United Nations Global Compact & Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Embedding Human Rights in Business Practice (New York: Global Compact Office, 2004).
- ‘The Human Rights Compliance Assessment’, in Claude Fussler, Aron Cramer and Sebastian van der Vegt (eds.), Raising the Bar – Creating Value with the United Nations Global Compact (Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2004).
- ‘Shell Pilots on the Human Rights Compliance Assessment’, in Claude Fussler, Aron Cramer and Sebastian van der Vegt (eds.), Raising the Bar – Creating Value with the United Nations Global Compact (Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2004).
