UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs)
What is UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs)?
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), unanimously endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011, establish the authoritative global standard for preventing and addressing human rights impacts linked to business activity. The UNGPs rest on three pillars: the State duty to protect human rights, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, and access to remedy. It comprises 4 controls organised across 4 domains, and applies in International (United Nations).
How UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) maps to other frameworks
All 4 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 4 domains UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) groups its controls into
Frameworks that share controls with UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs)
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). The number is how many UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
Fair Labor Association (FLA) Workplace Code of Conduct
7 shared controlsExtractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Standard (2023)
5 shared controlsEthical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code
4 shared controlsEquator Principles (EP4, 2020)
4 shared controlsFATF 40 Recommendations
1 shared controlO-RAN WG11 Security Specification
1 shared controlUS Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) - Higher Education Safeguards Rule
1 shared controlBSI IT-Grundschutz
1 shared controlWhere UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) overlaps with the standards you already hold
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Query UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) programmatically
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), its 4 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) API reference and MCP config →What UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- UNGP-1 State Duty to Protect Against Human Rights Abuses
- UNGP-12 Scope of Human Rights to Be Respected
- UNGP-15 Knowing and Showing - Policies and Processes
- UNGP-17 Human Rights Due Diligence
- UNGP-18 Assessing Actual and Potential Impacts
- UNGP-19 Integrating and Acting Upon Findings
- UNGP-2 State Expectations of Business Enterprises Abroad
- UNGP-20 Tracking Effectiveness of Responses
- UNGP-22 Remediation Where Cause or Contribution Identified
- UNGP-29 Operational Level Grievance Mechanisms
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