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Business and Human Rights: Legal Risks in Global Supply Chains 150 150 Farzana Aslam

Business and Human Rights: Legal Risks in Global Supply Chains

I wanted to share a recent blog contribution that I wrote for Sustainable Business Hong Kong, an initiative launched in 2015 by Hong Kong Council of Social Services and the Caring Company Scheme.  In the article I urge Hong Kong Companies to move from a traditional philanthropic approach towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) to one that is informed by international human rights standards.

June 16, 2016 marked the five-year anniversary of the unanimous endorsement of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights by the UN Human Rights Council.  One of the core pillars of the Guidelines, the corporate responsibility to respect, requires companies to avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through their own business activities and those in their supply chain.  As countries across the globe begin to embed these principles of into domestic legislation (the supply chain clause in the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 being one such example), the need to regard CSR through a human rights lens becomes not just a moral imperative, but an issue of legal risk and compliance.

Sustainable Business HK Article
Farzana Aslam

Director and Principal Consultant at Kintillo, Farzana has over two decades of professional experience including as an employment law Barrister (3 Hare Court, Middle Temple, London), in-house employment Counsel (Goldman Sachs, Asia-Pacific and Japan), Principal Lecturer, Law Faculty, the University of Hong Kong (Professional Ethics, Civil Litigation, Employment Law, Business and Human Rights), and Chair of Justice Centre Hong Kong.

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