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Article

3 Dec 2014

Author:
Intl. Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ)

ICAR & ECCJ Release Assessments of Current National Action Plans on Business & Human Rights

The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) and the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) have conducted structured assessments of current National Action Plans (NAPs) on business and human rights. To date, only four countries — the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Finland — have released NAPs on business and human rights. At the same time, a number of other governments have begun the process of developing such NAPs or have publicly announced an intention to do so. As such, it is essential that the four existing NAPs be closely analyzed in terms of their content and processes in order to assess best practice and to suggest areas for improvement going forward.