Listen to Sarah Dadush, founder of the Responsible Contracting Project, writer and professor in business and human rights at Rutgers Law School
In this Frankly Speaking episode, we explore the question of human rights due diligence by companies by asking what should go in the contract. Due diligence approaches have been criticized as simply using contractual clauses to pass off risk and responsibility down the supply chain.
To address how this can be avoided and to discuss what should and shouldn’t be in the contract, Richard Howitt welcomes Professor Sarah Dadush, writer and teacher in business and human rights at Rutgers Law School in the United States. She is the founding director of the Responsible Contracting Project, the mission of which is to improve human rights in global supply chains through innovative contracting practices. Check out Responsible Contracting Project's website to access all their tools.
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“ The responsibility for companies to respect human rights has been widely recognized. It's inalienable. You can't just use your contract to pass it on to someone else. To be due diligence-aligned, contracts should integrate the three R's of responsible contracting, which are: (1) responsible allocation of risks and responsibilities, (2) responsible purchasing practices, (3) remediation first and responsible exit.”
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The Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) wants to do for social issues what the TCFD did for climate a decade ago: harness capital markets to drive corporate action, this time on inequality and people-related risk.
What’s the track record of German companies implementing the LkSG? Listen to Sarah Hechler, previously Social Project Manager at the UN Global Compact Netzwerk Deutschland, and Christopher Bayer, Senior Researcher on the study and Principal Investigator at Development International
Are US companies retreating from or respecting human rights? Listen to Bennett Freeman, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and Chloe Cole, Senior Researcher in US Business and Human Rights at the Business and Human Rights Centre
