Resources
- The Business and Human Rights Resource Center contains a compendium of almost all the latest news and reporting on business and human rights. Their Weekly Update is a critical reference for practitioners.
- While several organizations have published methodologies for human rights impact assessment to date, aside from NomoGaia, only the Danish Institute for Human Rights has clearly articulated a commitment to adhere to human rights principles in conducting human rights due diligence. The DIHR Toolbox for HRIA aligns closely with the NomoGaia methodology and is well regarded by leading practitioners.
- For guidance on Meaningful Engagement with affected stakeholders, we recommend guidance produced by the OECD in close collaboration with civil society groups (including NomoGaia.)
- Anyone seeking to understand the shortcomings of grievance mechanisms and access to remedy should start with SOMO’s “Glass Half Full” report from 2016.
Publications
Academic and other papers published by NomoGaia personnel (please email us at info@nomogaia.org for PDF files if you do not have access to these publications)
- (DRAFT) Grievance Mechanisms in MSIs: Providing Effective Remedy for Human Rights Violations? 2022
- Financing and Genocide: NomoGaia’s initial report on IFC investments in the Uyghur Region (March 2021) and collaborative follow-up report with Sheffield Hallam University and the Atlantic Council February 2022
- Assessing the effectiveness of Non-State-Based Grievance Mechanisms as a means for remediation: RSPO as a case study 2021
- Missing Peoples: IFC’s limited application of Performance Standard 7 (PS7) on indigenous peoples is missing dozens if not hundreds of communities April 2021
- FPIC at the IFC: How PS7 could better protect indigenous peoples and uphold human rights. 2020, Report on IFC’s application of its indigenous peoples standard. Associated IFC Response Nov 18. NomoGaia Response Nov 29.
- Rights incorporated: integrating human rights impact assessment into global business practices. 2014, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Science.
- Corporate Human Rights Risk Assessment: Aligning what is Measured and Managed. 2018, Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 36:4, 411-435. DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2018.1547529
- Due diligence in the mining sector: an expanding concept. In Lodhia, S.K. (Ed.), Mining and Sustainable Development (pp. 87-98). 2018. New York: Routledge.
- What does Human Rights Due Diligence really look like for business relationships? Business and Human Rights Journal. 2,1-9. 2018.
- Taking Human Rights and Business Seriously. Lacuna. 2017
- Experience and lessons from health impact assessment for human rights impact assessment. BMC International Health and Human Rights. Volume 15:24. 2015.
- Corporate human rights commitments and the psychology of business acceptance of human rights duties: a multi-industry analysis. International Journal of Human Rights. Volume 19;6: 673-696. 2015
- Multinational corporations and infectious disease: embracing human rights management techniques. Journal of Infectious Diseases of Poverty. Volume 3:39; 1-13. 2014
- Assessing corporate project impacts in changeable contexts: A human rights perspective. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. Volume 47; 36-46. 2014.
- Assessing human rights impacts in corporate development projects. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. Volume 42; 39-50. 2013
Other Guidance Docs
Including presentations that may be of interest.
- 2019 Identifying HRIA for Auditors webinar (based on this document: Identifying HRIA in Practice)
- 2017 HRIA webinar (presentation slides, webinar recording online, information on related webinars in this flyer.
- HRIA Webinar
- HRIA Workshop: Geneva, 2016 summarizing this presentation: HRIA in the Agriculture Sector
- Banks and Rights Based Business Case for Science
- The Rights Based Business Case for Science
- NomoGaia Comments on WB Safeguards Review
- Congressional Briefing World Bank and Human Rights Burma
- Children’s Rights Business UNICEF Presentation
- World Bank Land Poverty 2012 HRIA Large Scale Land Acquisitions
- Social Impact Assessment Versus Human Rights Impact Assessment IFC Submission
- NomoGaia Response October 2009 Business Human Rights Consultation
- International Finance Corporation Presentation, March 2009
- World Bank Presentation, March 2009