Human Rights Compliance Assessment Tool for Companies

The HRCA is a diagnostic tool, designed to help companies detect potential human rights violations caused by the effect of their operations on employees, local residents and all other stakeholders. The tool runs on a database containing approximately 350 questions and more than 1,000 corresponding human rights indicators, developed from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and over 80 other major human rights treaties and ILO conventions. The interactive web-based computer programme allows each company to select questions in the database to suit their type of business and area of operations. When a questionnaire is complete, the computer programme generates a final report identifying areas of compliance and non-compliance in the company's operations. Numeric scores are included in the report to help the company report, improve and track its performance from year to year. In addition, the HRCA proposes ways of avoiding the main cultural and legal pitfalls of human rights issues and offers suggestions for how to strengthen the rights at greatest risk. The standards and indicators in the database are updated on an annual basis, based on feedback from company and human rights group users, and to reflect changes/developments in international human rights law

Developer

Danish Institute for Human Rights: Human Rights and Business Project

Developer website

http://www.humanrightsbusiness.org/

Thematic areas

Human Rights and Business