Human rights 'due diligence': What is it and why is it important?
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English - September 09, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBMarketing Business hydro aluminium aluminum business low carbon automotive Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When a company says it cares about human rights, how do you ensure that matches what’s happening on the ground?
Åsne Burgess Øyehaug, CSR manager in Hydro, and Kayla Winarsky Green of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, discuss “due diligence” in human rights, an increasing focus among companies, NGOs and the authorities.
Due diligence has origins in the financial world. It means taking a close look at the details when entering into a deal. In the world of corporate social responsibility, it means confirming the reality of what’s on paper with systems to identify human rights risks and taking proper action to remedy them.