Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs)
What is Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs)?
The Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs), established in 2000, guide extractive sector companies in maintaining the safety and security of their operations within a framework that respects human rights. The VPs are a multi-stakeholder initiative involving governments (13), companies (39), and NGOs (13). It comprises 35 controls organised across 4 domains, and applies in International (VP Initiative).
How Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) maps to other frameworks
All 35 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 Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) groups its controls into
Frameworks that share controls with Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs)
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs). The number is how many Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
IEC 62443
1 shared controlBarbados Data Protection Act 2019
1 shared controlIAIS Insurance Core Principles (ICPs)
1 shared controlKids Online Safety Act (KOSA)
1 shared controlMiFID II / MiFIR
1 shared controlDAMA-DMBOK2 - Data Management Body of Knowledge (2nd Edition)
1 shared controlSQF Code Edition 9 - Safe Quality Food
1 shared controlAS9100D - Aerospace Quality Management System
1 shared controlWhere Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) overlaps with the standards you already hold
Where to get trained on Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs)
One course in the catalogue covers Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) directly. Each is self-paced, includes the downloadable toolkit and the implementation playbook, and carries a certificate of completion.
Training more than one person? Ten seats of any course is $1,490 on a single licence, against $199 a seat bought one at a time.
What an auditor will ask you for
All 24 Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) controls, each with what it requires, the artefacts an auditor will ask you for, and where it commonly fails. Free to read, nothing to fill in.
Read the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) evidence request listWhat Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) means in your sector
What Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) means for your job
Questions people ask about Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs)
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Query Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) programmatically
Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs), its 35 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.
Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) API reference and MCP config →What Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
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