Downstream Human Rights Due Diligence: Informing Debate Through Insights from Business Practice

IF 2.3 Q3 BUSINESS Business and Human Rights Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-10 DOI:10.1017/bhj.2023.27
Benn F. Hogan, Joanna Reyes
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The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights conceive of human rights due diligence (HRDD) as covering potential impacts across value chains, including downstream. The proposed EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and the revision process of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises have sparked renewed discussion on how and whether companies should conduct HRDD downstream to identify and prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts. Whilst some debate has occurred previously on downstream HRDD, this has predominantly centred on specific sectors, products and services where the links to egregious human rights harms may be more readily identifiable. This piece seeks to inform the current debate by broadening the examples of sectors, products and services and current business practice which demonstrate the critical need for, and ability of, companies to consider human rights risks downstream.
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下游人权尽职调查:通过商业实践的见解引发辩论
《联合国商业与人权指导原则》认为,人权尽职调查涵盖了包括下游在内的整个价值链的潜在影响。拟议的《欧盟企业可持续性尽职调查指令》和经合组织《跨国企业准则》的修订过程再次引发了关于企业应如何以及是否应在下游开展人力资源尽职调查以识别、预防或减轻不利人权影响的讨论。虽然以前曾就下游人权与发展问题进行过一些辩论,但这主要集中在特定的部门、产品和服务上,在这些部门和服务中,可能更容易识别与严重人权伤害的联系。这篇文章试图通过扩大部门、产品和服务以及当前商业实践的例子来为当前的辩论提供信息,这些例子表明公司迫切需要并有能力考虑下游的人权风险。
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期刊介绍: The Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ) provides an authoritative platform for scholarly debate on all issues concerning the intersection of business and human rights in an open, critical and interdisciplinary manner. It seeks to advance the academic discussion on business and human rights as well as promote concern for human rights in business practice. BHRJ strives for the broadest possible scope, authorship and readership. Its scope encompasses interface of any type of business enterprise with human rights, environmental rights, labour rights and the collective rights of vulnerable groups. The Editors welcome theoretical, empirical and policy / reform-oriented perspectives and encourage submissions from academics and practitioners in all global regions and all relevant disciplines. A dialogue beyond academia is fostered as peer-reviewed articles are published alongside shorter ‘Developments in the Field’ items that include policy, legal and regulatory developments, as well as case studies and insight pieces.
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