In 2011, the United Nations adopted the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (“UN Guiding Principles”), which provide non-binding guidelines on how employers should conduct their business activities to provide appropriate respect for internationally recognized human rights. Recently, various organizations – including national governments, international organizations, workers’ organizations, and non-profit entities – have all attempted to transform the “soft law” nature of the UN Guiding Principles into hard laws that may have real consequences for employers.1 To support this, several initiatives have arisen to facilitate corporate human rights reporting and measurement in connection with the UN Guiding Principles.2
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