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Occupational Safety and Health45001: Occupational Health and Safety Standard
ISO The first international standard on safety and health, which builds on OHSAS18001 and is structured in a similar way as other ISO management systems (such as ISO 14001 or ISO 9001).
Indigenous PeoplesA Business Reference Guide: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
United Nations Global Compact This is a valuable resource for businesses to understand, respect and support the rights of indigenous peoples.
Living WageAchieving the Living Wage Ambition: Reference Sheet and Implementation Guidance
United Nations Global Compact The UN Global Compact SDG Ambition on Living Wage provides illustrative details regarding the steps to take to successfully implement a living wage programme to ensure 100% of employees across the organization earn a living wage.
Child LabourBase Code Guidance: Child Labour
Ethical Trading Initiative A step-by-step guide for businesses on eliminating child labour in global supply chains.
Forced LabourBase Code Guidance: Modern Slavery
Ethical Trading Initiative A step-by-step guide for businesses on eliminating forced labour in global supply chains.
Working TimeBase Code Guidance: Working Hours
Ethical Trading Initiative A step-by-step guide for business to improve working hours in supply chains.
Child LabourChild Labour Guidance Tool for Business
ILO and International Organisation of Employers (IOE) This tool helps companies meet the due diligence requirements laid out in the UN Guiding Principles, as they pertain to child labour.
Child LabourChild Labour: Global Estimates 2020, Trends and the Road Forward
ILO and UNICEF The most up-to-date global estimates of child labour from the ILO and UNICEF, including an overview of the impact on child labour from COVID-19.
Forced LabourCombating Forced Labour: A Handbook For Employers and Business
ILO This guidance provides materials and tools for employers and business to strengthen their capacity to address the risk of forced labour and human trafficking in their own operations and in global supply chains.
ToolsCSR Risk Check
A tool allowing companies to check which international CSR risks businesses are exposed to and what can be done to manage them. The tool provides tailor-made information on the local human rights situation as well as environmental, social and governance issues. It allows users to filter by product/raw material and country of origin. The tool was developed by MVO Netherland; the German version is funded and implemented by the German Government’s Helpdesk on Business & Human Rights and UPJ.
Gender EqualityDigital Library
UN Women A comprehensive resource on gender equality including reports, discussion papers and case studies.
International GuidanceDue Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business
OECD The OECD guidance provides practical guidance for multinational enterprises on responsible business conduct.
Gender EqualityEmpowering Women at Work: Company Policies and Practices for Gender Equality
ILO-UN Women This resource provides suggestions on how companies can promote gender equality in their operations, with reference to international labour standards and guiding principles. ILO and UN Women have also published another resource on promoting gender equality in supply chains.
Discrimination in Employment and OccupationEquality at Work: The Continuing Challenge
ILO A global report on diversity in the workplace and examples of how to improve it.
Migrant WorkersFair Recruitment Toolkit
ILO A modular training manual on fair recruitment to support in the design and implementation of fair recruitment practices.
Freedom of AssociationFreedom of Association and Development
ILO This resource provides ideas for employers’ organizations on how to work with trade unions, Governments and other relevant stakeholders to achieve sustainable development.
Freedom of AssociationFreedom of Association in Company Supply Chains
Ethical Trading Initiative This guide provides practical help to companies in identifying and understanding the impacts of their operations on freedom of association. It provides suggestions on how companies can drive change in their supply chains in terms of monitoring and protecting these rights.
Freedom of AssociationGlobal Rights Index 2021
ITUC Companies can use this resource to assess the risks to freedom of association globally and to identify the highest risk countries and regions. This report looks at specific themes in relation to workers’ rights, such as the right to strike, collective bargaining and access to justice, which enables companies to identify which issues are most pertinent to their country of operation.
Working TimeGuide to Developing Balanced Working Time Arrangements
ILO A practical guide or ‘how-to’ manual on working time arrangements — also known as “work schedules”.
- Forced Labour
Heightened human rights due diligence for business in conflict-affected contexts
This guide seeks to help businesses meet their responsibilities when carrying out heightened human rights due diligence in conflict-affected areas.
ToolsHelpdesk for Business on International Labour Standards
ILO The ILO Helpdesk assists company managers and workers that want to align their policies and practices with principles of international labour standards and build good industrial relations.
- Guidance
Human Rights Due Diligence and the Environment - A Practical Tool for Business
This Practical Tool provides businesses with guidance into their human rights due diligence to identify, prevent, mitigate, and account for how they address potential and actual adverse human rights impacts resulting from environmental harms.
Forced LabourHuman Trafficking and Business: Good Practices to Prevent and Combat Human Trafficking
UN.GIFT A resource developed by the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking and other stakeholders that explains what companies can do to take action against human trafficking. The guide provides a series of case studies that highlight the practical actions companies are taking to fight human trafficking.
Living WageImproving Wages to Advance Decent Work in Supply Chains
United Nations Global Compact This interactive microsite highlights lessons learned and best practices from companies and organizations on tackling low pay in supply chains, and provides guidelines on concrete steps companies and their suppliers can take to improve wages globally.
Migrant WorkersMigrant Worker Management Toolkit: A Global Framework
BSR A toolkit for respecting the rights of migrant workers throughout businesses and global supply chains.
Migrant WorkersMigration with Dignity: A Guide to Implementing the Dhaka Principles
Institute for Human Rights and Business A practical guide to implementing the Dhaka Principles of fair and equal labour for migrants. The Dhaka Principles provide a roadmap that traces the migrant worker from recruitment, through employment, to the end of contract and provides key principles that employers and migrant recruiters should respect at each stage in the process to ensure migration with dignity.
Occupational Safety and HealthNine Business Practices for Improving Safety and Health Through Supply Chains and Building a Culture of Prevention and Protection
ILO and United Nations Global Compact This report identifies practices that businesses can implement to advance decent work and improve occupational safety and health globally, especially when operating in countries with deficient national safety and health and employment injury protection schemes.
Occupational Safety and HealthOccupational Safety and Health in Global Value Chains Starterkit
ILO This tool provides guidance on how to map drivers and constraints for OSH improvements integrating safety and health approaches throughout the value chain, and provides case studies on the agriculture and garment industry.
- Forced Labour
Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
This report outlines new developments on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, including aligning global governance frameworks and the UNGPs.
Living WageRoadmap on Living Wages
IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative IDH is working to secure living wages through the Roadmap on Living Wages. This platform works to strengthen international alignment and to build tangible solutions regarding living wage.
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Security and Human Rights Toolkit
Security is an issue for all companies whether it relates to their field operations, supply chains, or contractors. Responsible security management is especially challenging in complex environments where governance is weak and companies face the task of managing overlapping and complex networks of stakeholders. The Toolkit is a practical handbook that brings together all relevant resources and good practices related to human rights compliant security practices, as well as tools and case studies that help translate the good practices to a particular operational context.
- Tools
SME Climate Hub
The SME Climate Hub supports companies in building resilient businesses for the future as it aims to mainstream climate action for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), or companies with under 500 employees.
Discrimination in Employment and OccupationSupplier Workbook
Sedex and Verité Chapter 1.8 on discrimination covers due diligence steps that companies can take to address discrimination in their supply chains.
Indigenous PeoplesThe Australian Business Guide to Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA) This guide is specifically targeted to Australian businesses with the GCNA having collaborated with the Indigenous Australian community. It provides practical advice about how executives and companies can understand, respect and embed the rights of Indigenous Australians into their daily operations.
Discrimination in Employment and OccupationThe Labour Principles of the UN Global Compact - A Guide for Business
United Nations Global Compact-OHCHR The purpose of this guide is to increase the understanding of the four labour principles, including Principle 6 on Non-Discrimination in Employment, as well as to provide an inventory of key resources to help integrate these principles into business operations.
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The Responsible Business Map
The Responsible Business Map shows the areas business should work on to achieve positive societal and environmental outcomes.
ToolsThe SME Compass
The SME Compass offers guidance on the overall human rights due diligence process by taking businesses through five key due diligence phases. The SME Compass has been developed in particular to address the needs of SMEs but is freely available and can be used by other companies as well. The tool, available in English and German, is a joint project by the German Government’s Helpdesk on Business & Human Rights and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
International GuidanceThe Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact
United Nations Global Compact The Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact provide universal guidance for sustainable business in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption.
International GuidanceTripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy
ILO The MNE Declaration provides guidance to businesses on social policy and inclusive, responsible and sustainable workplace practices.
International GuidanceUN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
OHCHR Launched in 2011, the UNGPs offer guidance on how to implement the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, which establishes the respective responsibilities of Governments and businesses - and where they intersect.
Indigenous PeoplesUnderstanding the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention
ILO This guide is a practical tool for ILO Constituents, including workers’ and employers’ organizations, to better understand the relevance, scope and implications of ILO Convention No. 169.
Gender EqualityWomen’s Empowerment Principles
The WEPs website has an extensive collection of resources on gender equality, including frameworks, templates, reports, guidance and toolkits that companies can utilize in the design, implementation and monitoring of their gender equality programmes. In addition, the virtual platform WEPs Learn offers lessons designed to give women more confidence in job interviews, lead gender equality initiatives within their organizations, the ability to assess new job opportunities and grow their careers more effectively.
Working TimeWorking Time in the Twenty-First Century
ILO A report on recent trends and developments relating to working time around the world.