Human Rights Guidance Tool for the Financial Sector



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CHILD LABOUR

Information on child labour, from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre: http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Issues/Labour/Childlabour

Information on child labour, from UNICEF, which is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to promote the protection of children's rights, help meet their basic needs and expand their opportunities to reach their full potential: http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_childlabour.html

Information on child labour, from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which exists to advance opportunities for people to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity: http://www.ilo.org/global/Themes/Child_Labour/lang--en/index.htm

All the relevant ILO conventions and instruments are listed at: http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/subjectE.htm#s03

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1990: http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Information on indigenous peoples, from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre: http://business-humanrights.org/Categories/Issues/Groups/Indigenouspeoples

UN Convention 169: Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, 1989: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/62.htm

UN Human Rights Council, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, September 2007: http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/indigenous/declaration.htm

Forest Peoples Programme, an international NGO supporting forest peoples to secure their forests, lands and livelihoods and manage them sustainably: http://www.forestpeoples.org/index.shtml

Conventions and instruments on Indigenous Peoples from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) which exists to advance opportunities for people to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity: http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/subjectE.htm#s20

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FORCED LABOUR

Information on forced labour, from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre: http://www.business-humanrights.org/Search/SearchResults?SearchableText=forced+labour

Information on forced labour from the International Labour Organisation, which estimates that at least 12.3 million people around the world are trapped in forced labour: http://www.ilo.org/global/Themes/Forced_Labour/lang--en/index.htm

All the ILO conventions and instruments relating to forced labour are listed at: http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/subjectE.htm#s02

ILO Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957: http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C105

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MONEY LAUNDERING, TRANSPARENCY AND ANTI-CORRUPTION

Information on transparency and anti-corruption, from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre: http://www.business-humanrights.org/Search/SearchResults?SearchableText=anti-corruption
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Search/SearchResults?SearchableText=transparency

The Wolfsberg Group is an association of twelve global banks, which aims to develop financial services industry standards, and related products, for Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing policies: http://www.wolfsberg-principles.com/index.html

Transparency International is a global network of national chapters which fight corruption in the national arena. They bring together relevant players from government, civil society, business and the media to promote transparency in elections, in public administration, in procurement and in business: http://www.transparency.org/

The Publish What You Pay campaign aims to help citizens of resource-rich developing countries hold their governments accountable for the management of revenues from the oil, gas and mining industries: http://www.publishwhatyoupay.org/measuring_transparency/index.shtml

Inter-American Convention against Corruption: http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/Treaties/b-58.html

OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/4/18/38028044.pdf

UN Convention against Corruption: http://www.unodc.org/pdf/corruption/publications_unodc_convention-e.pdf

The Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry (NHO) has produced ‘Standpoint Corruption’, a tool to help companies fight corruption: http://www.nho.no/files/Standpoint_Corruption_3.pdf

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HEALTH AND SAFETY

Information on health and safety, from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre: http://www.business-humanrights.org/Search/SearchResults?SearchableText=health+safety

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work exists to make Europe's workplaces safer, healthier and more productive, by promoting a culture of risk prevention: http://osha.europa.eu/index_html

Information on occupational safety and health from the International Labour Organisation, which estimates that every year more than two million people die from occupational accidents or work-related diseases: http://www.ilo.org/global/Themes/Safety_and_Health_at_Work/lang--en/index.htm

All the relevant ILO conventions and instruments are listed at: http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/subjectE.htm#s12

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CONFLICT ZONES

Information on conflict zones, from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre: http://www.business-humanrights.org/Search/SearchResults?SearchableText=conflict+zones

International Alert is an independent peacebuilding organisation that works to for lasting peace and security in communities affected by violent conflict: http://www.international-alert.org

The Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry (NHO), Corporate Actors in Zones of Conflicts Responsible Engagement: http://www.nho.no/files/Responsible_Engagement_1.pdf


TwentyFifty
October 2011