Business and Human Rights
What we do
- Support the development of National Action Plans and similar policy or normative instruments on business and human rights to promote responsible business practices and corporate accountability.
- Convene stakeholders to facilitate regional peer learning, South-South exchange, and capacity building on the UNGPs, including by organizing regional forums on business and human rights.
- Engage with companies to ensure respect for human rights throughout supply chains, including offering human rights due diligence training and closed-door guidance sessions.
- Develop guides and toolkits to support businesses in managing human rights risks, including heightened risks and impacts in conflict-affected areas.
- Support the conduct of national and regional baseline assessments and supply chain analyses.
- Promote gender considerations in business operations to strengthen respect for rights of women and non-binary people.
- Promote access to remedy to ensure rights-based solutions and prevent future human rights abuses.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing to foster action addressing the adverse role of business operations on the environment, climate, and human rights.

Where we work
UNDP currently has field programming on business and human rights in 28 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Learn moreSnapshots from the field
From consultations on national action plans on business and human rights to human rights due diligence training for businesses, B+HR global is working in partnership with governments, businesses, and civil society around the globe to promote business and human rights.
Learn more about business and human rights activities happening on the ground.
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Officials from government ministries and agencies in Bangladesh join a training on business and human rights
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An annual partnership meeting in Indonesia focused on stronger partnerships, the right to a clean environment, gender equality and a national business and human rights strategy
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Stakeholders in Pakistan provide their perspective on the National Action Plan on business and human rights during a series of sub-national consultations.
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Training sessions on human rights due diligence for businesses in Kazakhstan will help the put processes in place to ensure their operations are not impacting human rights
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The Baseline Assessment on Business and Human Rights in Africa was launched in October at the 1st African Business and Human and Human Rights Forum.
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A workshop in Nepal highlighted the role of National Human Rights Institutions in promoting business and human rights.
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A series of sub-regional dialogues across Peru have helped to decentralize the National Action Plan on Human Rights.
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More than 100 people representing civil society organizations and Indigenous Peoples groups joined the CSO safe space session on the sidelines of the UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum, Asia-Pacific in September.
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UNDP Ukraine presented the first findings of a country context assessment on business and human rights at the 3rd UN Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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The B+HR Academy in Mongolia engaged a wide range of private sector stakeholders during a series of 10 trainings.
UNDP Mongolia