การติดตามตรวจสอบการดำเนินงานด้านสิทธิมนุษยชน (Tracking and Monitoring)
Day 4: การอภิปราย และการประชุมเชิงปฏิบัติการ
การจัดทำกลไกรับข้อร้องเรียน และการเยียวยา (Grievance and Remedy)
การรายงานผลและเปิดเผยข้อมูลด้านสิทธิมนุษยชน (Reporting and communication)
การจัดทำกลยุทธ์ด้านสิทธิมนุษยชนขององค์กร (Corporate Human Rights Strategy)
"Business and Human Rights: HRDD Practical Guides" Global Compact Network Thailand
Background
Over the past several years, the business sector has embraced responsibilities towards environmental and social issues, and expanded its considerations to include non-financial factors – its impacts on society and the environment, beyond its traditional focus of generating returns for owners and investors, providing income to employees by offering its customers with products and services that meets societal needs. As part of this social responsibility, a business organization needs to be able to ensure that its own actions, as well as actions of its partners along the value chain, do not adversely impact the any person. These adverse impacts are considered a violation of human rights – a set of basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from their birth until death. These basic rights are based on shared values like dignity, fairness, equality, respect and independence. These values are defined and protected by national and international laws and agreements.
In recent times, business and human rights has received increasing attention from business stakeholders, with greater expectation and more stringent requirement for businesses to demonstrate their respect for, and promotion of, human rights in their day-to-day business operations. These stakeholders—regulatory bodies, government agencies, financial institutions and investors, consumers, and civil societies, are demanding the business sector to incorporate human rights principles and best practices through various approaches, including legislation, supply chain management requirements, investment and financing criteria, sustainability assessment criteria (e.g. DJSI, FTSE Russell’s ESG Ratings), and reporting requirements (GRI, One-Report Requirement from the Securities and Exchange Commission: SEC). In Thailand, the Ministry of Justice has published the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAP) after an extensive consultation process with stakeholders from multiple sectors. This National Action Plan outlines the state’s duty to protect, and the business sector’s responsibility to respect human rights, as well as remedy mechanism for people whose rights have been violated.
At the same time, the business sector has increasingly witnessed that the companies that are more effective at managing their human rights responsibilities are better at managing business risks, and also leveraging human rights issues to create new business opportunities, generating shared values with stakeholders both within their own operations and along the value chains. One of the key missions of Global Compact Network Thailand (GCNT) is to encourage business organizations in Thailand, including current members and non-members, to integrate human rights principles as well as the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) into their business operations, through the strategy of cultivating network of collaborations, raising awareness and developing capacity of business professionals. GCNT has therefore embarked on this journey, with its partners and subject matter experts, to develop the "Business and Human Rights: HRDD Practical Guides" training program, with the aspiration to drive concrete actions and effective implementation of human rights principles within the Thai business community.
Objectives
- To develop knowledge and understanding on business and human rights issues for the Thai business community; - To equip business professionals with the practical skills on the application of human rights management tools; and, - To cultivate a network of leaders from the business sector, the public sector, and civil societies, as a platform for promoting business and human rights agenda in Thailand.
Expected Outcomes
- The training participants have thorough understanding of business and human rights principles, international standards and best practices, and expectations of business organizations’ respect for human rights. - The training participants are equipped with practical knowledge and skills on the applications of human rights management tools, including Human Rights Risk Assessment (HRRA) and Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) processes. - Exchanges of ideas and experiences in handling business and human rights issues among leaders of diverse group of business and non-business organizations. - Learning from example: site visit to business organizations with outstanding performance in business and human rights management.
Resources:
The UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework is the world’s first comprehensive guidance for companies to report on how they respect human rights. Why should companies’ reporting on human rights matter to you?
"The UN Guiding Principles tell us we should ‘know and show’ that we respect human rights in practice. To be able to show, you have to know. To be able to know, you have to do. The Reporting Framework uncovers the places where you need to focus and improve, so that it becomes very clear what you need to do." - Sofie Nyström, H&M