Interactive website supports SMEs with "human rights assessment"
Since this week, Aim for human rights offers a wide range of information for managers from Small and Mediumsized Entreprises (SMEs) that operate internationally. On the website www.humanrightsimpact.org visitors find a Business Centre with practical information on how to address human rights in their company and with their business partners. Doing this they can for example combat child labour and poor working conditions. The website also brings SMEs together on the issue of human rights.
www.humanrightsimpact.org/themes/business-centre/hria-for-smes/ is accessible for everybody. It provides branch specific information on human rights themes that are relevant for SMEs. The website focuces on practical tools that help manage human rights dilemma's. Other functionalities include:
- events calendar;
- discussion forum for exchange of best practices;
- tailored advice from Aim for human rights.
Human Rights Impact Assessment
The name Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) refers to tools managers can use to do self assessments on human rights. The results of these are concrete recommendations on how to avoid human rights violations. An example is a standardized Memorandum of Understanding with business partners which mentions rights of employees.
To Aim for human rights it is important that companies comply with and promote human rights. Therefore we advice managers from Small and Mediumsized Entreprises free of costs on how to use human rights tools.
