MMR - Human Rights Due Diligence and COVID-19: Rapid Self-Assessment for Business

Burmese language version --- UNDP has designed a simple and accessible tool, the Human Rights Due Diligence and COVID-19: Rapid Self-Assessment for Business (C19 Rapid Self-Assessment), to help businesses consider and manage the human rights impacts of their operations. This non-exhaustive list of potential actions allows for rapid but continuous reflection on the human rights risks and impacts common to many industries.

URD - Human Rights Due Diligence and COVID-19: Rapid Self-Assessment for Business

Urdu language version --- UNDP has designed a simple and accessible tool, the Human Rights Due Diligence and COVID-19: Rapid Self-Assessment for Business (C19 Rapid Self-Assessment), to help businesses consider and manage the human rights impacts of their operations. This non-exhaustive list of potential actions allows for rapid but continuous reflection on the human rights risks and impacts common to many industries.

Human Rights Due Diligence and COVID-19: Rapid Self-Assessment for Business

UNDP has designed a simple and accessible tool, the Human Rights Due Diligence and COVID-19: Rapid Self-Assessment for Business (C19 Rapid Self-Assessment), to help businesses consider and manage the human rights impacts of their operations. This non-exhaustive list of potential actions allows for rapid but continuous reflection on the human rights risks and impacts common to many industries.

Business, Human Rights and the Environment

In April 2020 UNDP B+HR Asia, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and other partners, hosted an online survey to capture perceptions of environmental risks and their relationships to human rights abuses in Asia. Respondents were asked for their views on the most effective means of addressing the challenges related to Business, Human Rights and the Environment. Then, the outcomes of the survey were discussed at roundtable event to better understand the issues faced by the region.

Human Rights Due Diligence Training Guide and Tool released

The Business and Human Rights in Asia (B+HR Asia) project, an EU-UNDP joint action, launched the Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) Training Facilitation Guide and Human Rights Self-Assessment Training Tool to help businesses prevent, mitigate, and account for potential human rights abuses in their operations and supply chains.

Human Rights Due Diligence Training Facilitation Guide

The Training Facilitation Guide provides training modules which clarify what is required to conduct human rights due diligence by focusing on the basics and sticking to internationally agreed principles and widely understood terminology. The objective of these training modules is to clarify the requirements of HRDD by tacking closely to internationally agreed principles and widely understood terminology. Applying a step-by-step approach, this allows for businesses to embark on HRDD as a stand-alone effort or as part of a preexisting assessment process.