Way forward on UNGPs
UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights released the roadmap to strengthen UNGPs.
The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights launched at the UN Forum on 29 November 2021 a roadmap for the better uptake and implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in the next decade.
The roadmap focuses on four action areas:
Action area 1: UNGPs as a compass for meeting global challenges
- Goal 1.1: Make business respect for human rights a core element of just transition and sustainable development strategies
- Goal 1.2: Enhance collective action to tackle systemic challenges
- Goal 1.3: Optimize digital transformation through respect for human rights
- Goal 1.4: Ensure coherence and alignment in standards development
Action area 2: State duty to protect
- Goal 2.1: Improve policy coherence to reinforce more effective government action
- Goal 2.2: Seize the mandatory wave and develop a full smart Mix
Action area 3: Business responsibility to respect
- Goal 3.1: Scale up business uptake and translate commitments to respect into practice
- Goal 3.2: Embed human rights due diligence in corporate governance and business models
- Goal 3.3: Challenge business practices that are inconsistent with respect for human rights
Action area 4: Access to remedy and meaningful stakeholder engagement
- Goal 4: Move from paper to practice in tackling barriers to access to remedy.
The full roadmap can be found under this link.
The International Organisation of Employers (IOE) has been heavily involved in this process and launched a flagship report, setting out the views of our global membership and partners on the roadmap for better implementation of the UN Guiding Principles. Please find the IOE report here as well as a joint IOE-BIAC-BusinessEurope paper here.
IOE was invited to four sessions at the UN Forum to comment on the roadmap and regional implementation efforts. In these sessions, IOE expressed its commitment to engage constructively in the implementation of the roadmap. It will be key to drive implementation of the UN Guiding Principles at national level. IOE will organise a major conference at the beginning of next year to discuss possible action in this regard.
