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Human rights impact assessment

In: Teaching Business and Human Rights

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  • Mark Wielga

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Human rights impact assessment (HRIA) is the process of predicting and identifying the ways in which a business impacts human rights. It arose from the general discipline of impact assessment. It is one form of human rights due diligence mandated by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. In practice, it can be a particularly intensive and effective form of human rights due diligence. There is no accepted form or method of HRIA, leading to a confusingly diverse variety of names given to similar reports. Some HRIAs look only to a small set of human rights or a particular set of rightsholders. Company-commissioned HRIAs are often criticized for have a pro-business bias, while community-led HRIAs are condemned for being too anti-business. Some examples of HRIAs are publicly available and these present rich teaching materials as they are real examples of companies’ human rights impacts.

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  • Mark Wielga, 2023. "Human rights impact assessment," Chapters, in: Anthony Ewing (ed.), Teaching Business and Human Rights, chapter 9, pages 113-128, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20941_9
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