The arc of human rights priorities - introducing a new model for managing human rights risk in business

One well-known tool for understanding the human rights landscape within your company’s operations is the United Nations Global Compact Sphere of Influence model. This report seeks to expand and enhance the UN Global Compact Sphere of Influence approach by adding additional dimensions to the company mapping exercise.

The Arc of Human Rights Priorities allows companies to incorporate other variables into the analysis, offering a complete picture of the low-, medium- and high-priority human rights issues where a company should focus its efforts and resources.

The Arc has long been offered to Human Rights and Business Department company partners, but is now being offered publicly as part of an ongoing effort to widen, strengthen and support the UN Global Compact approach.

To help readers understand this new concept, the Human Rights and Business Department has used a single company throughout this paper - The Coca-Cola Company - as a source of examples to illustrate our model. Coca-Cola provided input on the examples to ensure factual accuracy and relevance. This paper does not necessarily reflect the views of The Coca-Cola Company, nor should it be seen as an endorsement of that company’s policies and practices.