State of Play - Human Rights Due Diligence, Anticipating the Next 5 Years

The first in IHRB's “State of Play” report series, this report focuses on human rights due diligence.

It examines the approach of 24 prominent companies in interpreting the concept – namely, the development of human rights and related policies, assessing human rights risks and impacts, integrating and acting on assessments, tracking performance, and communicating to stakeholders – and describes the efforts made to apply it in practice.

The Report comes at a key moment in the development of the business and human rights agenda.  It was released prior to the endorsement of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as a contribution to prove human rights due diligence was not only theoretically possible, but in fact already being practiced by companies around the world.