Online Certificate
Integrating Human Rights into Business Operations
This certificate introduces the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human rights (UNGPs) as the overarching framework that influences today’s fast-changing corporate governance landscape, and how to introduce this into the company’s own operations and the corporate group.
Objectives
Key Points
Curriculum
- Introduction to Business and Human Rights
- Overview of the UNGPs
- Engagement with internal stakeholders within the business
- Due diligence in the company’s own operations and the corporate group
- Multinational companies and how to respond to conflicting local requirements in various geographical areas of operation
Faculty
Lise Smit
Senior Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights and Director, Human Rights Due Diligence Forum
David Chekroun
Professor of International Business Law - ESCP Business School
Flexibility
This certificate is part of our Integrating Human Rights into Business online programme comprising four certificate courses allowing you to build your capacity for implementing international standards on respecting human rights in business activities.
Whilst we highly recommend taking the four courses together, the programme is flexible and allows you to choose which single or combination of certificates is best for you. Upon completion of each course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. You are also able to upgrade to other courses.
- Integrating Human Rights into Global Value Chains
- Transparency, Stakeholder Engagement and Remediation
- Integration of multiple legal, Industry and International Standards
To find out more about our other certificates in the programme, please contact the recruitment executive.
In Partnership with
This certificate is offered through a partnership with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, a world-leading institute for the study of international law. You will benefit from the joint expertise of both institutions, and their respective global networks with external expert tutors from within companies, advisory services, legal practice and human rights organisations.
Admission Criteria
- Bachelor / Master’s Degree in a relevant field (incl. business-related areas such as management or accounting, human rights, development or law) OR
- 3 years of professional experience related to the programme