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STRATEGY
The Human Rights Matrix and the Essential Steps: Specifically in relation to ‘due diligence’ as part of the responsibility to respect, the Human Rights Matrix allows any business to take the first step, to move on from a strategic commitment to human rights to ensuring that existing or new policies are adequate in their breadth and depth to do so. Going live at the end of June 2009.

INTEGRATION
The Guide for Integrating Human Rights into Business Practice: The starting place for any business committed to starting to map human rights into their existing management systems. The Guide gives a generic cross-business sector introduction to some of the key questions to ask and so resources available when developing policy and practice in this area.

OPPORTUNITY
Human Rights and Development: BLIHR has worked, together with the Kennedy School at Harvard University and the Institute for Human Rights and Business to generate a diverse range of business case-studies which reflect some of the links between human rights, development and business growth and opportunities in emerging economies. Going live at the end of Nov 2009.

GOVERNANCE
Accountability Guide:
Human rights also belong within the values and culture of any business and the accountability guide demonstrates, based on legal precedent and research within specific BLIHR member companies, how the links between human rights and good corporate governance and business ethics can be made.

BLIHR members will be leading new initiatives and continuing investments in existing ones. Some of these are listed below:

 

Beyond the list above, BLIHR companies also participate in a number of industry initiatives including: The Equator Principles, Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, Electronics Industry Code of Conduct.