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Added by apesphere on 11 Mar 2009
From: www.business-humanrights.org

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Companies still getting to grips with their human rights responsibilities may find useful a new survey by Aim for Human Rights comparing HRIA tools.

The “Guide to Corporate Human Rights Impact Assessment Tools” provides an overview of the tools corporations and managers can use to implement human rights norms within their business practices and policies.

The guide describes both the history of HRIA tools and the theory underlying them, before summarizing a selection of existing tools and suggesting criteria for selecting the right tool.

The report also examines what a company can do by way of follow up after having undertaken an HRIA.

Andrew Newton is the author of The Handbook of Compliance: Making Ethics Work in Financial Services