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[DOC] Examples of companies’ impacts on a range of human rights issues
The table below lists a range of human rights issues for business. For each issue, it provides an example of a positive company initiative and an example of an alleged abuse.
[Issues covered in the chart:
- Workplace health & safety
- Supply chain
- Freedom of association / Right to form & join trade unions
- Working conditions
- Child labour
- Forced labour
- Age discrimination
- Disability discrimination
- Gender discrimination
- Racial/ethnic/ caste discrimination
- Religious discrimination
- Sexual harassment
- Unfair trial & rule of law
- Genocide
- Rape & sexual abuse
- Torture & ill-treatment
- Security & conflict
- Freedom of expression
- Housing & displacement
- Health
- Access to medicines
- Poverty & development
- Disclosure/use of payments to govts. (affecting poverty & development)
- Indigenous peoples
- Access to water
- Environment
- Education]