Values added: the challenge of integrating human rights into the financial sector
This publication is no longer in circulation, as it predates the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and more recent and relevant guidance on the topic exists.
This report presents the results of research to assess the feasibility of adapting the Danish Institute for Human Rights’ Human Rights Compliance Assessment (HRCA) tool to the financial services sector, including the process of identifying the framework and collaborating partners for the development, testing and roll-out of such a tool.
In 2009, the Human Rights and Business Project was funded by the Swiss
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs to take the first step toward developing a version of the Human Rights Compliance Assessment tool for the financial sector as a means of providing the practical means of assessing the human rights challenges and risks related to investment decisions and detecting risk areas for non-compliance. This project aimed at assessing the feasibility of collaborative development of tools to support this integration process.
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