The Human Rights and Business Project is a team within the the Human Rights and Business Department of DIHR.
Being embedded in a leading national human rights institution gives the Human Rights and Business Project a number of advantages. First, all Project initiatives benefit from an internationally renowned research staff, contributing cutting-edge, interdisciplinary expertise to issues that have previously been examined only within the academic field.
Second, the Project is able to observe the development and assessment of human rights projects around the world, and apply those methodologies to the business context. DIHR researchers, advisors and project staff are involved in initiatives as diverse as security-forces training in Central Asia to HIV/AIDS prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa. This wide range of projects forms a basis of experience that the Project adapts and applies to business. From this foundation, projects can be developed quickly, based on existing models, and draw upon experts in a wide range of geographic and topic areas.
Financing
DIHR and the Human Rights and Business Project are nonprofit entities. Donors include Danida, the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the UN and the World Bank. The majority of funding of the Human Rights and Business Project comes directly from projects and partnerships with companies. All revenues from consultancy are directly reinvested in Project research and other work to promote human rights in the business sphere.
For more information on the Project or our work, contact Mike Baab: mba@humanrights.dk .