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FROM COMMITMENT TO ACTION ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

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PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

The idea of human rights is as simple as it is powerful: That all people have a right to be treated with dignity.

Businesses often impact the human rights of their employees and contract workers, workers in their supply chains, the communities around their operations and even the end users of their products or services. Whether directly or indirectly, they impact virtually the entire spectrum of internationally recognized human rights.

As a result, companies have both a responsibility and an opportunity to advance human rights across operations, supply chains and beyond.

Is your company able to know and show that it supports and respects the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights and that it is not complicit in human rights abuses?

The Business & Human Rights Accelerator is a six-month programme activating companies participating in the UN Global Compact across industries and regions. This hands-on programme will help you move from commitment to action on human rights and labour rights through establishing an ongoing human rights due diligence process.

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN?

  • An understanding of where your company is on their human rights journey
  • An assessment of actual and potential adverse human rights impacts and the ability to prioritize action
  • The ability to mitigate your human rights impacts, including grievance mechanisms and remedy
  • Ways to engage stakeholders on business impacts
  • An action plan to advance human rights in your company and beyond
  • A network of peers, UN partners and experts to support your human rights journey and work collectively to tackle persistent barriers to human rights due diligence

PROGRAMME BENEFITS

  • Identify and assess your company’s actual or potential adverse human rights impacts
  • Learn how to integrate those findings across processes and take appropriate action
  • Track the effectiveness of measures and processes to know if they are working
  • Communicate how impacts are being addressed and show stakeholders that your company is taking action and seeing results

Build a network of peers, UN partners and experts to support your human rights journey and work collectively to tackle persistent barriers to implementing an effective human rights due diligence process

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Identify and assess your company’s actual or potential adverse human rights impacts
  • Learn how to integrate those findings across processes and take appropriate action
  • Track the effectiveness of measures and processes to know if they are working
  • Communicate how impacts are being addressed and show stakeholders that your company is taking action and seeing results

HOW TO APPLY

Applications are now open for the Business & Human Rights accelerator programme.

    • Registration opens
      September 21, 2022
    • Registration closes
      December 15, 2022

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN


• An understanding of where your company is on their human rights journey
• An assessment of actual and potential adverse human rights impacts and the ability to prioritize action
• The ability to mitigate your human rights impacts, including grievance mechanisms and remedy
• Ways to engage stakeholders on business impacts
• An action plan to advance human rights in your company and beyond
• A network of peers, UN partners and experts to support your human rights journey and work collectively to tackle persistent barriers to human rights due diligence
• A certificate demonstrating completion of programme

Join your peers in taking action on Human Rights!

To apply, visit unglobalcompact.org/bhr-accelerator or contact the Global Compact Local Network in your country.

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