Human rights services for business
GoodCorporation supports organisations in identifying and managing human rights risks and impacts and embedding respect for human rights across their global operations.
Our approach is grounded in international standards, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the ILO Core Conventions.
Our human rights services
We provide practical support across the full due diligence cycle, from mapping salient risks and conducting impact assessments, to engaging stakeholders, delivering training and supporting implementation and continuous improvement.
Human rights risk mapping
Identify and prioritise salient human rights risks across operations and value chains, supported by defensible scoring, heatmaps and recommended mitigation actions.
Human rights impact assessment (HRIA)
Assess actual and potential human rights impacts in high‑risk projects, sectors or geographies, with findings validated through rightsholder and stakeholder consultation.
LEARN MORE Worker welfare assessments
Evaluate workplace conditions, recruitment practices, wages and safety, including risks linked to forced labour and modern slavery, with a particular focus on migrant and vulnerable workers using the GoodCorporation Labour Rights Framework.
LEARN MORE Human rights training and capacity building
Tailored programmes for boards, senior management, procurement functions and operational teams, including workshops, eLearning and train‑the‑trainer models.
LEARN MORE On-going advisory and implementation support
Policy development, supplier engagement and capacity-building, review of mitigating actions, creation of performance metrics, development of grievance mechanism-related tools and other support for continuous improvement across governance and human rights due diligence systems.
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Human Rights Management and Governance Framework
Community Rights framework
Labour Rights framework
Our human rights frameworks
GoodCorporation’s human rights frameworks provide a practical, structured approach to evaluating how well an organisation identifies, manages and mitigates human rights impacts. Developed with reference to the UN Guiding Principles, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the UNGP Reporting Framework and ILO Core Conventions, they are used globally to benchmark performance and guide improvement.
The frameworks cover governance, labour rights, community impacts and human rights due diligence processes, offering organisations a clear pathway to strengthen policies, embed human rights into operational practice and prepare for emerging human rights due diligence requirements such as the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
Our frameworks underpin much of our advisory, assessment and training work and can be tailored to reflect the specific risks, operating contexts and strategic priorities of individual organisations.
Aligned with international standards
Our methodologies reflect the following frameworks and guidelines:
- UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
- OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
- ILO Core Labour Standards
- GRI and SASB human rights indicators
- Emerging requirements under human rights due diligence legislation including the CSDDD
Our methodology
We take a structured, evidence‑based approach that includes:
Scoping and planning
Data collection and documentation review
Stakeholder and rights‑holder engagement
Analysis and prioritisation
Recommendations and implementation planning
Monitoring and continuous improvement
Stakeholder and rights‑holder engagement
We apply safe, confidential and culturally sensitive methods to gather insights from workers, communities, civil society organisations and internal teams, ensuring findings reflect on‑the‑ground realities.
Outcomes you can expect
GoodCorporation helps organisations understand and manage their salient human rights impacts by building the policies and processes needed to identify, prevent and address potential harms across their operations and business relationships. The outcomes you can expect from this work include:
Visibility
Clear identification and prioritisation of salient risks
Accountability
Defined ownership, governance structures and KPIs
Confidence
Building supply chain resilience and transparency, securing investor assurance
Integration
Human rights embedded into sustainability risk management and due diigence as well as wider governance systems and business strategy
Remedy
Practical mitigating actions addressing root causes, strengthened grievance mechanisms and remediation pathways informed by stakeholder consultation
To discuss how these outcomes could apply within your organisation, arrange a conversation with our team.
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Why GoodCorporation
For more than twenty years, GoodCorporation has supported organisations in strengthening the way they manage human rights across complex global operations. Our work spans high‑risk supply chains, challenging operating environments and diverse sectors, giving us practical insight into the issues companies face in protecting people and respecting rights.
Our team has proven expertise in labour rights, community impacts, governance and human rights due diligence. We apply methodologies grounded in international standards and informed by GoodCorporation’s own frameworks, which provide clarity and structure when assessing risks and designing robust systems.
Organisations choose GoodCorporation because our advice is independent, evidence‑based and focused on helping companies build effective human rights programmes that stand up to stakeholder, regulatory and investor scrutiny.
Get in touch to discuss how we can support your human rights programme.
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Frequently asked questions
What are salient human rights risks?
Salient human rights risks are those human rights that are at risk of the most severe negative impacts through a company’s activities or business relationships. They help organisations prioritise where to focus their resources and efforts.
What is human rights due diligence?
Human rights due diligence is the process of identifying, preventing, mitigating and accounting for how a company addresses its human rights impacts in line with the UN Guiding Principles.
How does human rights risk mapping differ from a human rights impact assessment?
Risk mapping identifies potential and actual risks across activities and geographies to identify where the highest risks lie for an organisation. A HRIA is a deeper, context‑specific assessment exploring actual and potential impacts linked to a particular project, site, commodity or value chain segment, and involving more intensive stakeholder engagement.
Which international standards guide human rights due diligence?
Companies typically follow the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct, ILO Core Conventions and emerging human rights and environmental due diligence legislation such as the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
What are the benefits of undertaking human rights due diligence?
Clear roadmap for risk-based and prioritised action to manage human rights risks and impacts, reduced legal, reputational and operational risk, strengthened supply chain resilience, improved stakeholder trust and alignment with investor expectations and sustainability regulations and frameworks.
What does 'business and human rights' mean?
A Business and Human Rights programme is the system by which companies ensure respect for human rights across their business, including identifying, assessing, preventing, mitigating and accounting for human rights impacts linked to their operations and value chains. This includes labour rights issues such as modern slavery and living wages as well as impacts on communities and other stakeholders across global value chains.
This work sits at the intersection of governance and responsible business conduct, regulatory developments (including due diligence laws and ESG disclosure requirements), and investor and stakeholder expectations. Embedding respect for human rights is not only a compliance expectation, it is an integral part of responsible corporate governance and a driver of sustainable growth.
