IPRI, in partnership with Business and Human Rights Resource Center, PRODESC, Frontline Defenders and the ALLIED coalition, produced a policy brief: ‘‘Hearing the human: Ensuring meaningful due diligence legislation effectively amplifies the voices of those affected by irresponsible business’. The full policy brief is available in English and Spanish.
It makes the case that genuine due diligence depends on meaningful stakeholder engagement, which in turn must address retaliation risks and attacks on rights-holders and HRDs, as well as limitations to their civic freedoms. The goal of this briefing is to push for inclusion of this angle in the legislative text on EU’s Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative, including mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (mHREDD), to be adopted by the EU later in 2021.
(Feature image from PRODESC)
