Call for input: Consultation on human rights revisions to the Global Reporting Initiative standards (deadline: 9 Sep)
"GRI consultation on human rights revisions to the GRI Standards"
A public comment period is underway until 9 September 2020 to gather feedback on an exposure draft that revises the GRI Universal Standards. The GRI Universal Standards, which apply to all organizations reporting in accordance with the GRI Standards, are being revised in order to:
- embed mandatory human rights disclosures for all organizations using the GRI Standards;
- integrate reporting on due diligence and remedy – for human rights impacts but also for impacts on the environment;
- review key concepts, such as ‘materiality’ and ‘stakeholder’, to align them with key authoritative intergovernmental instruments.
These revisions have been developed by a multi-stakeholder Technical Committee of human rights experts. These revisions aim to increase alignment between the GRI Standards and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the OECD’s guidelines and tools on responsible business conduct, and to better support the thousands of organizations using the GRI Standards to more effectively report on how they meet their responsibility to respect human rights.
To learn about these and other proposed revisions to the GRI Universal Standards, and to provide your feedback, please visit https://www.globalreporting.org/standards/work-program-and-standards-review/review-of-gris-universal-standards/