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What is a ‘high-risk country’? How do you compare impacts on asylum seekers rights in Denmark with workers right to form and join trade unions in the U.S.? Country ranking is often biased - and by nature like comparing apples with pears. We call it the ‘fruit-fallacy’.
The good news is, ranking of countries is not necessary for your UNGPs aligned Responsible Business Conduct.

Read our blogpost on the 'High-Risk Countries' Fallacy here: https://globalcsr.net/the-high-risk-countries-fallacy/

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The ‘High-Risk Countries’ fallacy | GLOBAL CSR GLOBAL CSR, 14 March 2023 For a long time, a tendency has grown within the field of ESG/Corporate Sustainability/CSR to list and rank countries according to their human rights risks. It stems from a need for defining high-risk countries in business and human rights practices largely in relation ...

The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises are up for revision for the first time since 2011. As a central reference point for , such updates can be crucial to corporations operating in OECD countries. GLOBAL CSR warmly welcomes the proposed updates. The guidelines now explicitly mention businesses have responsibility in the full value chain, rather than the supply chain only, and the reference is clear throughout. There is however still room for improvement: For instance, the proposed update includes an encouragement for businesses to conduct a ‘materiality’ assessment – in our view an out-dated, expense heavy ‘screening’ of material issues for the company, that isn’t cost-efficient and most importantly is not aligned with the OECD blueprint: the . Read along on our feedback to the proposed updates by the OECD, here:
https://globalcsr.net/feedback-on-oecd-guidelines-for-multinational-enterprises-2023/

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Feedback on OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, 2023 | GLOBAL CSR The updates to the framing of international trade between the global South and North are warmly welcomed. It is read to strengthen the value and potential for global relevance of the OECD Guidelines (e.g., ‘foreign investments’ has been updated to ‘cross-border trade and investments’; ‘dev...

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