Sources

Guidelines and Support

• UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

• The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: An Interpretive Guid

• OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct

• OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains in the Garment & Footwear Sector

• OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas

• OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains

• Children's Rights and Business Principles (Barnrättsprinciperna för företag)

• ILO NATLEX (database with national labour law legislation)

• Swedish National Agency for Public Procurement's risk analyses for sustainable supply chains (in Swedish)

• Adda Central Purchasing Body's template for risk analysis for sustainable supply chains (in Swedish)

• CSR Risk Check

• U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Commodity Summaries

Human Rights

• Swedish Foreign Ministry's reports on human rights, democracy and the rule of law in the world (in Swedish)

• U.S. Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

• Human Rights Watch World Report (per country)

• Amnesty International’s Country Profiles 

• Freedom House Countries and Territories

• World Justice Rule of Law Index

• Human Rights Measurement Initiative Rights Tracker

• UNDP Global Human Development Indicators  

• World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators

Workers' Rights

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• Swedish Foreign Ministry's reports on human rights, democracy and the rule of law in the world (in Swedish)

• U.S. Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

• U.S. Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report

• Responsible Sourcing Tool

• Global Slavery Index

• U.S. Department of Labor’s Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor

• Links on child labour in China, since China is missing in the link above

• ITUC Global Rights Index

• ILO Statistics on Safety and Health at Work

• ILO Statistics on Working Time

• ILO Statistics on Wages

The Environment

• Environmental Performance Index 

• Global Footprint Network

• Thomson Reuters Practical Law Environmental Global Guide

• OECD Environmental Performance Reviews

• EU DEVCO Country Environmental Profile

Business Ethics

• Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index

• GAN Integrity Risk and Compliance Portal

• Country reports on the implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

• Tax Justice Network Financial Secrecy Index

• Internet Privacy by Country

Particularly Vulnerable Groups

• Vulnerable Groups

• Gender Inequality Index

• Children's Rights and Business Atlas

• World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

• Indigenous Navigator

• ILO Statistics on International Labor Migration

• ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers

• Migrant Integration Policy Index

• Fragile States Index

• Council on Foreign Relations Global Conflict Tracker

• Uppsala Conflict Data Program

• Peoples under Threat

Global Unions

• International Trade Union Confederation

• Building and Wood Workers International

• IndustriAll

• International Transport Workers' Federation

• International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations

• UNI Global Union

International Instruments

• UN Treaty Body Database (ratifications per country)

• ILO NORMLEX (ratifications per country)

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Human Rights

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• UN Declaration of Human Rights

• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

• Convention on the Rights of the Child

• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

• Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities

• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 

• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

• UN Human Rights Council Resolution 48/13

• CESCR General Comment No. 12: The Right to Adequate Food 

• CESCR General Comment No. 15: The right to water​

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Workers' Rights​

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ILO Core Conventions

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• ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work

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• Forced Labour Convention (No. 29)

• Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (No. 87)

• Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (No. 98)

• Equal Remuneration Convention (No. 100)

• Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (No. 105)

• Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (No. 111)

• Minimum Age Convention (No. 138)

• Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (No. 182)

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Other relevant ILO conventions

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• Hours of Work (Industry) Convention (No. 1)

• Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention (No. 14) 

• Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention (No. 30)

• Night Work of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention (No. 79)

• Night Work of Young Persons (Industry) Convention (Revised) (No. 90)

• Protection of Wages Convention (No. 95)

• Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention (No. 102)

• Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Convention (No. 106)

• Employment Policy Convention (No. 122)

• Minimum Wage Fixing Convention (No. 131)

• Workers' Representatives Convention (No. 135)

• Collective Bargaining Convention (No. 154)

• Occupational Safety and Health Convention (No. 155)

• Part-Time Work Convention (No. 175)

• Private Employment Agencies Convention (No. 181)

• Maternity Protection Convention (No. 183)

• Violence and Harassment Convention (No. 190)

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ILO recommendations connected to the conventions above 

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• Forced Labour (Indirect Compulsion) Recommendation (No. 35)

• Protection of Wages Recommendation (No. 85)

• Equal Remuneration Recommendation (No. 90)

• Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Recommendation (No. 111)

• Employment Policy Recommendation (No. 122)

• Minimum Wage Fixing Recommendation (No. 135)

• Workers' Representatives Recommendation (No. 143)

• Minimum Age Recommendation (No. 146)

• Occupational Safety and Health Recommendation (No. 164)

• Termination of Employment Recommendation (No. 166)

• Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Recommendation (No. 168)

• Employment Policy (Supplementary Provisions) Recommendation (No. 169)

• Private Employment Agencies Recommendation (No. 188)

• Worst Forms of Child Labour Recommendation (No. 190)

• Maternity Protection Recommendation (No. 191)

• Employment Relationship Recommendation (No. 198)

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The Environment

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• Paris Agreement

• Convention on Biological Diversity

• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

• Minamata Convention on Mercury

• Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

• Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

• Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 

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Business Ethics

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• UN Convention against Corruption

• United Nations set of principles on competition (The UN Set)

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2030 Agenda

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• UN 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals