The Human Rights Matrix is an initial web-based self-assessment and learning tool that enables a company to begin to understand and address its human rights performance, by identifying its policies on human rights and the approaches it has taken towards human rights. It will help companies to simplify, visualise, assess and manage their human rights programs and performance.

The Human Rights Matrix has been developed by The Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights (BLIHR), a program that ran from 2003 -2009 to help lead and develop the corporate response to Human Rights. It was a business-led program with 14 corporate members with the principal purpose to find "practical ways of applying the aspirations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights within a business context and to inspire other businesses to do likewise”.

In particular, the tool is designed and structured to support functional managers - often not human rights experts – in completing the sections of the tool most relevant to them. Board members and senior leaders will appreciate the simple, short reports and ‘dashboard’ presentation that supports strategic discussion. CR Professionals will find the tool useful to assess performance, manage knowledge and support planning. The tool supports companies to make an assessment and substantiate the assessment with information about their own policies, practices and initiatives.

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