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12 Nov 2019

Report assesses human rights performance of 22 largest Irish companies based on CHRB Core Indicators

On November 8th, the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) at the Trinity Business School launched a report assessing the human rights performance of the 22 largest companies in Ireland based on the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) methodology. Just five companies had a total score of greater than 20%, the highest score being 42%, with a further seven scoring between 10-20%, and ten companies less than 10%. 

Key findings suggest amongst others that:

  • There is a lack of awareness among Irish companies of the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights and/or a lack of explicit compliance with these as evidenced by the low scores in the CHRB index;

  • There is a particular weakness in the area of ‘embedding respect and human rights due diligence’ in their policies and public declarations – although companies are weak in all areas examined

The report concludes that Ireland needs to move beyond a ‘soft law’ approach to truly incentivise companies to embed respect for human rights into their policies and practices. The full report is available below.