Projects

Human rights and impact assessment

Human rights and impact assessment
We are developing several tools and resources on human rights and impact assessment in the business and human rights context.

The assessment of human rights impacts of business activities is considered to be a key component of the corporate responsibility to respect, and human rights due diligence, as outlined in the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Impact assessment can provide an evidence-based analysis of business interaction with human rights, and as such can provide a platform for developing concrete and context specific actions to avoid, mitigate and remediate any adverse impacts. The adoption of a human rights-based approach is key to any impact assessment that takes a human rights focus.

The Danish Institute for Human Rights is working on human rights and impact assessment (HRIA) in the following ways:

You can find further information about any of these projects and publications via the relevant links on this page. You are also most welcome to contact us for further details.

Handbook on HRIA out

The Handbook is available in both hardcopy and ebook - get it via Edward Elgar here

Open access introduction here