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    What Is A Human Rights Policy

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    A human rights policy publicly expresses a company's commitment to respecting internationally recognized human rights standards as defined in the International Bill of Human Rights and International Labour Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Developing such a policy shows understanding of responsibility to respect human rights, provides a basis for embedding this responsibility across business functions, responds to stakeholder expectations, identifies policy gaps, builds trust with stakeholders, and demonstrates good business practices.

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    A human rights policy publicly expresses a company's commitment to respecting internationally recognized human rights standards as defined in the International Bill of Human Rights and International Labour Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Developing such a policy shows understanding of responsibility to respect human rights, provides a basis for embedding this responsibility across business functions, responds to stakeholder expectations, identifies policy gaps, builds trust with stakeholders, and demonstrates good business practices.

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    A human rights policy publicly expresses a company's commitment to respecting internationally recognized human rights standards as defined in the International Bill of Human Rights and International Labour Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Developing such a policy shows understanding of responsibility to respect human rights, provides a basis for embedding this responsibility across business functions, responds to stakeholder expectations, identifies policy gaps, builds trust with stakeholders, and demonstrates good business practices.

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    A human rights policy publicly expresses a company's commitment to respecting internationally recognized human rights standards as defined in the International Bill of Human Rights and International Labour Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Developing such a policy shows understanding of responsibility to respect human rights, provides a basis for embedding this responsibility across business functions, responds to stakeholder expectations, identifies policy gaps, builds trust with stakeholders, and demonstrates good business practices.

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    What is a human rights policy?

    It is a companys public expression of its commitment to meet its responsibility to


    respect internationally recognized human rights standards. At a minimum, this means
    the rights set out in the International Bill of Human Rights and the principles
    concerning fundamental rights set out in the International Labour Organizations
    Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.

    Why develop a human rights policy?

    A human rights policy shows that a company understands its responsibility to respect
    human rights. It also:

    Provides a basis for embedding the responsibility to respect human rights


    through all business functions
    Responds to relevant stakeholder expectations
    Identifies policy gaps and initiate a process that alerts the company to new
    areas of human rights risk
    Elaborates on the companys commitment to respect and support human rights
    Builds increased trust with external stakeholders and to start to understand and
    address their concerns
    Fosters the development of in-house learning, management capacity and
    leadership on human rights issues
    Demonstrates international good business practice

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