Course Overview

This course is designed to help managers in companies to understand the importance and relevance of human rights.

The course comprises five modules which will help you to develop an understanding of human rights and integrate the Global Compact principles into your everyday business:

• SECTION I
  Introduction to Human Rights
  
  
  1.1 What are Human Rights?
  1.2 "Protect, Respect, Remedy: a UN framework for business and human rights"
  1.3 Some Human Rights Scenarios
  1.4 Values of the International Community
  1.5 What Does this Mean for Business?
  1.6 Implementation and Enforcement Mechanisms
  
• SECTION II
  Respecting Human Rights
  
  
  2.1 Introduction
  2.2 The Corporate Responsibility To Respect
  2.3 The Due Diligence
  2.4 Review of Learning
  
• SECTION III
  Supporting Human Rights
  
  
  3.1 Introduction
  3.2 How to Support Human Rights
  3.3 The Different Components of a Company's Sphere of Influence
  3.4 Your Own Company
  3.5 Review of Learning
  
• SECTION IV
  Complicity
  
  
  4.1 Introduction
  4.2 The Cost of Complicity
  4.3 Understanding Complicity
  4.4 Types of Complicity
  4.5 The Legal Risk of Complicity
  4.6 Risk of Complicity Within Your Company
  4.7 Review of Learning
  
• SECTION V
  Remedy
  
  
  5.1 Introduction
  5.2 Why Non-judicial Dispute Resolution?
  5.3 Different Ways to Resolve Disputes
  5.4 Characteristics of Effective Dispute Resolution Processes
  
• Review of Learning - Self assessment test