Human-Rights Due Diligence
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Security work touches people's rights every day: when a guard searches a bag, holds someone for the police, uses force, films a crowd, or keeps a protester away from a gate. Security work also touches the rights of the guards themselves: fair wages, safe hours, freedom from forced overtime, the right to keep their own identity papers. Large corporate clients, especially in mining, energy, infrastructure and manufacturing, now expect their security providers to show that they understand these risks and manage them. Many will ask for proof in a tender.
Focus: know the three main international frameworks, find where your operations could harm people, act to prevent it, give people a way to complain, put things right when harm happens, and be ready to show your work.
Learning objectives
- Describe the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the responsibility of businesses to respect human rights.
- Describe the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers and the association that maintains it.
- Describe the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and what they expect of companies that use private security.
- Carry out the steps of human-rights due diligence for a security operation.
- Set up a grievance mechanism and an incident response.
- Answer a client's human-rights questions in a tender.
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