We provide businesses with the practical and strategic advisory they need to incorporate respect for human rights into their operations and along their value chains.
We help you and your team understand and meet your responsibilities with respect to human rights. We adapt our services and products to the specific needs of your company and take into account different maturity levels of human rights due diligence management across departments, subsidiaries, and supply chains. Our solutions ensure that you conduct business in line with international standards and frameworks on business and human rights.
– Human Rights Due Diligence Management Services –
Risk Analysis and Impact Assessment
Conducting tailored risk analyses to identify and assess the human rights risks at corporate, country…
Gap
Assessment
Identifying the gaps between company’s existing policies, management systems, and practices…
Policies and
Governance
Developing, drafting, and revising human rights-related policies tailored to the specific needs…
Risk Management &
Mitigation
Defining and implementing adequate measures to mitigate the human rights risks…
Grievance
Mechanisms
Supporting in the conceptualization and development of adequate grievance mechanisms…
Performance Measurement and Reporting
Establishing structures to measure management systems’ performance via KPIs…
– Complementary Services –
In addition to our core business of establishing human rights due diligence management systems, we offer the following services:
Country and Sector-Specific Research and Briefings
We provide decision makers with in-depth research on difficult industry…
Legal
Monitoring
Legal developments can be abrupt und sometimes unexpected for companies…
Executive
Briefings
Directors and officers need to understand legislative developments and demands…
Capacity
Building
Understanding human rights risks and their impact on people and business…
Stakeholder Engagement and Facilitation of Dialogue
Meaningful stakeholder engagement is a key success factor in conducting credible…
Human Rights Due Diligence in the M&A Context
Mergers and acquisitions of companies involve inherent and often unquantifiable…
Human Rights Due Diligence in the ESG Investment Context
ESG due diligence has become an integral part of investment decisions…
Companies embarking on the journey to respect human rights in their operations are confronted with a very simple question: Do we have processes in place that will deliver adequate risk identification and mitigation?
Specifically, we establish effective Human Rights Due Diligence management systems in line with applicable regulations, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
Founded in 2014 by Markus Löning, Germany’s former Commissioner for Human Rights, we have an extensive international network of stakeholder groups and partners, which we leverage to offer practical and innovative solutions to manage the specific human rights risks and impacts of companies operating across industries and geographies.
With our diverse and international team of experts from different professional backgrounds, we advise our clients in English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese and can communicate in Dutch, French, Hindi, Italian, Luxembourgish, Turkish and Vietnamese.
Raquel Althoff
Head of Consulting
Cecilia Barral Diego
Head of Legal
Maxine Bichler
Junior Consultant
Stephanie Borowiec
Senior Consultant
Thao Brinkschulte
Communications Manager
Ana Corte
Senior Consultant
Serra Cremer Iyi
Head of Communications
Alice Homuth
Consultant
Markus Löning
Managing Director
Charles Muller
Partner, Regulatory Expert
Constanza Munoz
Consultant, Compliance Expert
Marie Nientiedt
Consultant
Theresa Quiachon
Consultant
Lisa Szeponik
Programme Director
Liesbeth Unger
Partner
If you like to work with us, send us an email with your CV.
Our Clients
Our clients range from international non-profit organisations and industry associations to medium-sized businesses and multinational corporations with global supply chains and operations.
Our clients share certain characteristics:
- They acknowledge that businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights.
- They are committed to conducting business responsibly.
- They take concrete actions to incorporate respect for human rights in their operations and across their supply chains.
- They have longer-term perspectives and make long-term plans.
- They are willing to identify gaps in their human rights implementation and improve corporate policies, processes, and behaviours to correct and close such gaps.
Our clients choose us because:
- They know we support profitable and responsible business conduct.
- They value working with reliable and flexible professionals.
- They value our interdisciplinary skillset, legal expertise, and business acumen.
- They value high-quality and structured deliverables that they can easily translate into practice.
- They value our network and our ability to establish dialogue with stakeholder groups.
- They value our ability to guide them through the political environments they operate in.
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