European discussions to strengthen human rights due diligence (HRDD) resulted in the approval of a new text for the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD or CS3D) – a standard yet to be voted on by the European Parliament -, reinforcing the growing demand for responsible business conduct throughout the production and value chain.
This is because we believe that human rights due diligence will be one of the most important boundaries for companies to cross to strengthen their protection of their value chain and meet increasingly growing ESG criteria (and already provided for in other relevant and valid standards in the Brazil and around the world).
Steps to Human Rights Due Diligence
The main steps of due diligence and its integration into business management processes are:
- Step 1 – Integrate due diligence into organizational policies
- Step 2 – Identify real and potential impacts on human rights and the environment
- Step 3 – Interrupt (cease), prevent or mitigate real and potential impacts on human rights and the environment;
- Step 4 – Establish and maintain a complaints procedure;
- Step 5 – Monitor the effectiveness and due diligence policy; It is
- Step 6 – Publicly communicate due diligence processes.
References
The construction of these steps is based mainly on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles on Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy.
