The Danish Institute for Human Righs
The Human Rights and Business Country Risk Portal will present business-specific human rights risk information for a large number of developing countries, in a highly structured and accessible form. The key objective of the Portal is to enable all relevant stakeholders, including companies, the public sector and human rights advocates, to effectively engage with the human rights and development risk of private-sector operations in varied contexts around the world.
The Human Rights and Business Country Risk Portal will be the first freely available Website to present comprehensive, structured and timely country risk information aimed at private-sector compliance with international human rights standards. The Portal will combine human rights risk information across industry sectors with concrete risk management recommendations for businesses. Such information has the potential to guide and empower business, government and civil society actors seeking to address positive and negative human rights impacts of private-sector activities.
The Human Rights and Business Country Risk Portal will
- Allow free access to qualitative and quantitative risk information on businessrelevant human rights issues in 100+ countries.
- Identify and assess business involvement in human rights abuses owing to legal, administrative and developmental factors, giving a clear baseline for all actors to engage with key issues in local markets.
- Give targeted risk management recommendations for businesses to ensure legal compliance and ongoing good practice.
- Identify local development priorities and initiatives to assist private sector actors in developing social investments and partnerships.
The Human Rights and Business Country Risk Portal is envisioned as a five-year project encompassing a wide range of business, civil society and institutional partners.
