responsabilisation à l’échelle internationale

L’EHRC vient de publier un guide « Business and human rights – A five-step guide for company boards » bien intéressant pour les CA. Comme le précise ce document : « We recommend that boards should follow five steps to ensure that their company is fulfilling its responsibility to respect human rights in a robust and coherent manner that meets the expectations of the UN Guiding Principles and UK statutory reporting obligations. Boards should be aware of the company’s salient, or most severe, human rights risks, and ensure ».

The following are the five steps that it is recommended boards should follow to ensure that their company is fulfilling its responsibility to meet human rights in a robust and coherent manner that meets the expectations of the UN Guiding Principles and UK statutory reporting obligations:

1. the company should embed the responsibility to respect human rights into its culture, knowledge and practices;
2. the company should identify and understands its salient, or most severe, risks to human rights;
3. the company should systematically address its salient, or most severe, risks to human rights and provide for remedies when needed;
4. the company should engage with stakeholders to inform its approach to addressing human rights risks; and
5. the company should report on its salient, or most severe, human rights risks and meet regulatory reporting requirements.

Attention : encore une fois, tout cela n’est que du droit international et donc du droit « mou ». Ce guide l’exprime très bien en ces termes : « The Guiding Principles do not create any new international legal obligations on companies, but they can help boards to operate with respect for human rights and meet their legal responsibilities set out in domestic laws ».

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Ivan Tchotourain