Social responsibility and human rights responsibility

Social responsibility at the heart of corporate sustainability

Social responsibility, which defines the good treatment of people, is one of the three core elements of corporate sustainability (the Social section of the ESG concept). Social responsibility is based on human rights, on top of which other social responsibility issues are built.

We help companies to understand what social and human rights responsibility means and how investing in them also makes financial sense.

The content will take into account elements such as:

• The social responsibility framework: corporate human rights responsibility as a foundation and the other social responsibility issues that build on it
• The many benefits for business of implementing social responsibility
• Corporate human rights responsibility:
  • What are human rights?
  • How do human rights, as defined in international law and legally binding on States, relate to business?
  • The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) as a key tool for implementing the corporate human rights responsibility: the content of the Guiding Principles and the requirements for business
  • Human rights due diligence (HRDD) at the heart of the corporate human rights responsibility
  • Do no harm & do good: Responsible companies primarily aim as preventing negative human rights impacts in their operations and value chains; Producing positive human rights impacts is an added value.
  • Other issues of social responsibility to build a responsible and sustainable corporate culture

Broad sparring on social responsibility is implemented in cooperation with a partner.