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New Human Rights Quarterly Monitor offers critical value chain insights

A new quarterly product drawing on Maplecroft's expert analysis and risk indices will monitor priority human rights risks for companies worldwide. Clients will have the choice of a generic off the shelf version or can select their own sector and relevant risks.

Maplecroft's Human Rights Quarterly Monitor offers up-to-date, one-page country risk scorecards for organisations with operations, supply chains, distribution networks and investments in countries that present high risk of human rights violations.

The Monitor includes quantitative country risk scores and trends for 24 separate human rights violations categories. Each violation category is rated as low, medium, high or extreme risk and is allocated a quarterly trend of increasing, stable or decreasing risk. These are supplemented by qualitative analysis of key recent events across four core risk areas: human security; labour rights and protection; civil and political rights; and access to remedy.

Sector-specific editions are available for the retail, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and extractive sectors. Other sectors are available on request.

Maplecroft's Human Rights Quarterly Monitor provides a valuable supplement to Maplecroft's annual Human Rights Risk Atlas and more in-depth country reports. Subscribers will benefit from regular and relevant situation updates that provide a vital overview of human rights risk exposures in countries throughout the supply chain.

Sample scorecard (available on free trial)

The Human Rights Quarterly Monitor is designed to help business to assess and monitor their human rights risks and responsibilities. The methodology is informed by the 'Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework suggested by the UN's Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Professor John Ruggie. To meet its responsibility to respect human rights, the Framework states that a responsible company should engage in human rights due diligence to the level commensurate with the risk of infringements posed by the country context in which a company operates, its own business activities and the relationships associated with those activities.

"The Human Rights Quarterly Monitor is a discrete, impactful resource that identifies both risk and opportunities for business," said Dr Kevin Franklin, Director at Maplecroft. "It provides valuable insight for risk managers as part of their quarterly business reviews, for supply chain functions in their evaluation of vendor risk exposure and logistics networks, and for corporate communications teams in their horizon scanning of potential threats to brand."

To see the sample Human Rights Quarterly Monitor scorecard for Zimbabwe simply register for a free trial or for more information about how to subscribe contact Maplecroft at info@maplecroft.com.