Human rights and impact assessment
This working paper discusses the topic of human rights and impact assessment in the private sector context. Drawing on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as well as literature from the areas of human rights impact assessment and the human rights-based approach, the paper outlines and discusses five key criteria for the assessment of human rights impact of private sector projects.
About the author
Nora Götzmann is Advisor in the Human Rights and Development Department of the Danish Institute for Human Rights and Adjunct Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, University of Queensland.
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