McGrigors Rights
McGrigors Rights is the international human rights consultancy of McGrigors LLP. We make human rights work for, not against, you.
Globalisation brings social risk to companies entering emerging markets where there is weak governance and subsequent exposure to perceptions of complicity with human rights abuses regarding labour conditions, security, contractor standards, community relations, corruption and lack of rule of law, etc.
Our range of risk management advisory services enables our clients to identify and meet their human rights responsibilities by managing both legal obligations and increasing stakeholder expectations with a view to turning social risk into business opportunity. For our public sector clients our Best Practice Guide on Equality and Human Rights enables public authorities to ensure compliance and improve service delivery.
Our practical experience is drawn from working throughout the UK as well as Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and North America. We have worked with a diversity of organisations including:
- Multi-national companies in the oil and gas, power, financial services, retail, telecommunication and information technology sectors.
- Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights, led by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, with members including Barclays, General Electric, GAP, Hewlett-Packard, Ericsson, National Grid and Statoil among others.
- Governments (UK and Swiss), United Nations (Secretariat, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, International Labour Organisation and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees), World Bank Group (International Finance Corporation) and a number of non-governmental organisations.
Recent Human Rights Work
Services recently provided include:
Private Sector
- Human Rights Impact Assessment - Country and project-specific risk checklists, identification and analysis of human rights impacts and risks.
- Alerters – presentations on what you need to know and what you need to do about the dynamic developments of human rights and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
- Roadmap or action plan – signposting the development and implementation of a human rights and CSR strategy and integrating human rights into your management systems.
- Tool Kit - customised tools for risk identification and management.
- Handbook – development of a user-friendly manual as a tool at management level for awareness-raising and training.
- Training – human rights risk management and awareness training internally for management and employees.
- Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights training – external and internal training to ensure compliance and manage security risks.
- Stakeholder management– facilitating roundtable engagement with key company stakeholders such as investors, partners, host government, NGO's etc. so as to reach an agreed framework of shared responsibilities and roles.
- Monitoring – research and analysis to assess proposed investment/operations in high-risk countries or projects.
Public Sector
- Best practice guide – customising manuals connecting policy, procedure and practice for the development of best practice and training in human rights and equality in the public sector.
- Health check– spotlighting strengths and weaknesses, development needs at policy, procedure, procedure and practice levels in human rights compliance of public authorities.
For further information please contact : kavita.chetty@mcgrigors.com
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