GoodCorporation helps organisations to understand and manage their salient human rights impacts.
We work with clients to develop the policies and processes needed to identify, prevent and address any human rights impacts in both their own activities and those of their business partners.
This is increasingly becoming a legal requirement as more jurisdictions mandate companies to account for and address any adverse human rights impacts arising from their activities or business relationships.
Our human rights consultants use their expertise to provide best practice guidance and deliver improvements that meet both societal and legislative requirements.
Our human rights services cover the following:
For businesses seeking a comprehensive view of their human rights risks worldwide, whether to comply with regulations, meet investor expectations or simply manage ethical and reputational risk, the first step is to conduct a company-wide risk mapping exercise.
GoodCorporation helps clients identify and map these risks across each of their business activities and throughout the value chain. Each risk is associated with appropriate mitigating actions. Our methodologies are tailored to our clients' human rights journey to ensure the effective implementation of any recommendations. This exercise will provide the basis for a human rights roadmap that will guide the operational management of human rights for the future.
Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) are an essential tool for companies to identify and address the impacts linked to a specific high-risk project, operation, product or raw material. HRIAs can look at the company's own operations, as well as the upstream and downstream value chain.
In line with international best practices and our well-established assessment methodology, GoodCorporation's HRIAs rely extensively on stakeholder engagement. The perceptions of rights-holders or potentially affected stakeholders such as workers, human rights defenders and communities, and other relevant stakeholders, such as civil society organisations and government agencies where relevant, are collected by our human rights consultants to identify any potential or actual adverse human rights impacts and to design suitable remediation measures.
Our work focuses on vulnerable groups, including migrant workers, women, children, ethnic minorities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community depending on the context of operations.
Our human rights consultants analyse issues such as child labour, bonded and forced labour, child safeguarding, the wage system, the use of security forces, community health and safety, or gender in context, as well as their underlying causes, in order to propose appropriate mitigation measures.
As part of their management of human rights, organisations are expected to ensure that high worker welfare standards apply across all areas of their operation, including the supply chain.
Where workplace rights are at risk, GoodCorporation conducts dedicated worker welfare assessments. Using the GoodCorporation Framework on Respecting Workplace Rights we apply our methodology to check whether a policy exists, that it is properly implemented, that records exist and that workers agree that the system works in practice.
Worker welfare assessments cover a range of issues including discrimination, harassment and bullying, freedom of association and collective bargaining, living wage, health and safety and how these are managed in the supply chain.
GoodCorporation's frameworks on human rights are based on emerging international best practice. They were developed with reference to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, The UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework, The Modern Slavery Act and The ILO Declaration of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.
Our frameworks are used in much of our human rights consulting work to develop, embed or assess an organisation's approach to respecting human rights. We can also tailor the framework to suit the needs and risk profile of individual companies.
They cover three key areas: the governance and management of human rights, respecting labour rights and respecting community rights.
Our courses provide the knowledge and skills needed to improve human rights practice within an organisation. GoodCorporation devises and facilitates human rights training programmes that are tailored to suit the needs of a particular organisation.
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These training programmes are intended for internal company stakeholders at various levels: board and senior management, key functions such as procurement teams or internal audit, internal subject-matter experts or all staff members.
They cover a range of topics, including the human rights regulatory landscape and stakeholder expectations, how to carry out human rights assessments in practice, labour rights or security and human rights more generally.
We were delighted and really impressed by the safeguarding assessment that GoodCorporation and Mission 89 undertook. It has really helped us to analyse our policies and procedures carefully and has given us a clear roadmap for our next steps.
Hoss Rafaty
Secretary General of World Taekwondo
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