Are the human rights standards relevant to business?
The field of human rights is politically and academically well developed, with rights and standards emerging from treaties and conventions, international legal decisions, and reports of a number of different UN, national and international bodies. But most standards and application procedures have been developed for governments, not companies. To ensure that our interpretation of international human rights law for companies has the support and wide acceptance of both companies and human rights groups, the main HRCA database has been taken through a year-long consultation process funded by the European Union. The consultation process involved a total of 80 companies and human rights groups from 10 European countries.
