Risk, responsibility and human rights: taking a rights-based approach to trade and project finance

Draft framework for a HRIA. This HRIA framework aims to translate international standards and voluntary mechanisms into policy, and builds upon traditional impact assessment processes and best practices as well as on a human rights based approach to international trade and project finance. The framework covers the entire project cycle.  


Developer

Halifax Initiative

Developer website

www.halifaxinitiative.org

Thematic areas

Human Rights and Business


Source(s):

LanguageFormatSource
EnglishPDF documentclick here to view/download

Related publications

NGO Working Group on EDC, a working group of the Halifax Initiative Coalition Risk, Responsibility and Human Rights: Assessing the Human Rights Impacts of Trade and Project Finance. Halifax Initiative view details >>

Rights & Democracy Rights & Democracy Initiative on Human Rights Impact Assessment: Background note. Rights & Democracy view details >>

Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Development) - House of Commons, Canada Fourteenth Report. House of Commons, Canada view details >>

Useful websites

Halifax Initiative: Human rights section

The National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Sector in Developing Countries