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Article

2 May 2011

Author:
Frank Seier, Right2Respect

Human Rights Due Diligence: The Best Defence is a Good Offence

In [Ruggie's] “Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework”, he sets out a four-step due diligence program that companies should follow in order to discharge their corporate responsibility to respect human rights – including elaboration of a corporate policy commitment and management procedures to respect human rights, a human rights impact identification and assessment process, internal operational integration of impact findings, and an ongoing compliance monitoring and performance reporting procedure. According to Mr. Ruggie, this will allow companies to “change the game from naming and shaming to knowing and showing” – that is, rather than reactively responding to civil society allegations of human rights infringements, to proactively identify and address adverse human rights impacts and demonstrate to their stakeholders their good faith and duly diligent efforts to respect human rights.