Business and Human Rights
The obligation of corporations and other business enterprises to assess and avoid the risk of their business adversely impacting human rights is now firmly established in international standards and domestic laws and regulations.
Our team of experts has long experience in the human rights field and can assist your company to undertake human rights due diligence or analyses business impact on society, mapping risk assessment including supply chain risks.
We can provide you with a practical guide, assistance and capacity building programs in designing business and human rights frameworks, establishing and improving the existing business and human rights initiatives, and in implementing appropriate and adequate procedures and controls to mitigate adverse human rights impacts.
We also assist the government to develop appropriate regulations and policies, legislation and adjudication on business and Human Rights, assist government and state agencies to develop and achieve its national human rights and business action plans, and advocate access to judicial and non-judicial remedies for human rights violations and impact of corruption by Corporations and States.
Our Experiences
- Human rights due diligence | Advising on the development of human rights policy and conducting a human rights due diligence exercise for a client on the automotive industry and its supply chain
- Investigation | Investigating and advising on allegations of environmental and labour law violations and other human rights abuses in the extractive sector in Indonesia