Companies need to go further in including quantifiable information about human rights in their sustainability reports, concluded a survey on corporate human rights reporting just released by GRI and the Roberts Environmental Center (a research institute at Claremont McKenna College). The survey, based on information published by 100 large companies from around the world, evaluated the extent to which performance information is reported by companies to describe their compliance with widely accepted human rights objectives. Compliance with the GRI G3 Guidelines on human rights was also assessed.
The study found that while labor practices were the most frequently reported human rights topics, they were not often identified by reporters as human rights related issues. Four of the nine topics addressed by the G3 human rights indicators were not mentioned at all by half or more of the surveyed companies. Nonetheless, despite a low adherence to the G3 Performance Indicators, it was found that G3 declared companies report quantitative performance information more often than other companies.
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For further information about the research contact Damir Dragicevic at GRI.