Resource Center

The Resource Center provides existing studies, websites, tools, databases and further information on Human Rights in general, and with focus on tourism. 

If you know further resources, please info [at] humanrights-in-tourism [dot] net (subject: Resource%20Center) (let us know) and we are glad to add them. 

Survival - Global Movement for Tribal Peoples’ Rights

Website

We fight for tribal peoples’ survival. We stop loggers, miners, and oil companies from destroying tribal lands, lives and livelihoods across the globe. We lobby governments to recognise indigenous land rights. We document and expose the atrocities committed against tribal people and take direct action to stop them. We give tribal peoples a platform to speak to the world.
Survival
Indigenous Peoples / Minorities Rights

The Human Rights Guide to Sustainable Recovery

Website

This resource provides guidance for sustainable recovery from COVID-19 using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and human rights as a blueprint, as proposed by the UN Secretary-General in “Human Rights and COVID-19: we are all in this together”
Danish Institute for Human Rights [DIHR]
Sustainability
COVID-19
Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]
General Human Rights Information

The Human Rights Self-Assessment [HRSA] Training Tool

Website

This HRSA Training Tool helps you to develop a human rights risk profile. Using the tool, you will define the “severity” and “likelihood” of relevance to your industry. The tool produces heat maps for each risk to help you identify areas for priority action. Alongside the heat map, and for reporting and other purposes, you are provided a reference to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and target indicator linked to the specific risk.
United Nations [UN]
Human Rights Risk Assessment [HRRA]
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
Due Diligence
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights [UNGPs]

The Indigenous Navigator Tools Database

Website

The Indigenous Navigator provides a framework and a set of tools to monitor indigenous peoples’ human rights and ensure they are not left behind.
Danish Institute for Human Rights [DIHR]
Indigenous Peoples / Minorities Rights

The SME Compass - Understanding and implementing corporate responsibility

Website

Your tool for environmental and human rights due diligence along the value chain - Understand risks - Take action - Comply with due diligence What do I start with? And how do I proceed? Use the Due Diligence Compass and find out! An offer especially for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Helpdesk Business & Human Rights
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
Due Diligence
Supply Chain
Sustainability

The world's most dangerous megacities for women

Website

With cities across the globe growing rapidly, the future looks set to be urban with an estimated 66 percent of the population to be living in urban areas by 2050 up from 54 perIn the first poll of its kind, the Thomson Reuters Foundation asked experts in women’s issues which of the world’s megacities are safe for women – and which need to do more to ensure women are not at risk of sexual violence and harassment and harmful cultural practices and have access to healthcare, finance and education.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Sexual Exploitation/Sexual Harassment
Women's Rights/Women Empowerment

TourCert - Travel for Tomorrow

Website

TourCert unites experts in tourism, academia, environment, development, and politics. With many years of experiences we are committed to responsible tourism. For us, “Travel for Tomorrow” means making the travel industry fit for the future and also sensitizing travellers on achieving a positive contribution for everyone involved with their holidays.
TourCert
Sustainability
Tourism Stakeholder
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]

Tourism Risk, Crisis and Recovery Management Guide

This guide does not enable you to prevent natural disasters or prevent security threats to your clients. What we at CATO hope it will do, is to give you some guidance on how to most effectively prepare your business and your staff to be conscious of risk and to sensitively communicate this to your clients. It will also hopefully help you manage those situations when your clients really need your assistance during a difficult situation whether that arises from external or internal causes.
Dr. Beirman D.
Crisis Management
38 pages

Tourism Value Chain Risk Assessment

Website

The violation of the rights of the population in the destination country, critical working conditions for low income groups and the release of greenhouse gas emissions from tourist flights as well as overloading of the natural environment. These problems are primarily found in the destination countries, but they do exist in relation to society as a whole while overlapping with other economic sectors.
Hamburger Stiftung für Wirtschaftsethik
Risk Assessment
Supply Chain
Tourism Stakeholder

Tourism Watch

Website

Tourism Watch works for the consistent application of a human rights approach in tourism that has a central focus on the interests and needs of local people and we are committed to strengthening the social and cultural dimensions of sustainability in tourism.
Tourism Watch
Community Impact
Human Rights Policy
Community-based Tourism [CBT]
Tourism Stakeholder
Voluntourism
Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]

Travelife for Tour Operators & Travel Agencies

Website

Travelife is a leading training, management and certification initiative for tourism companies committed to reaching sustainability. Operating your business in a socially and environmentally friendly manner makes good business sense! Both consumer and business demand for responsible products is growing and the public wants to know how you manage your business.
Travelife
Sustainability
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
Tourism Stakeholder

Travindy - Stories of Sustainable Tourism

Website

Essential online source for understanding tourism and sustainability and learning how better to communicate its benefits.
Travindy
Sustainability
Tourism Stakeholder
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]

UNEP FI - Human Rights Guidance Tool by Sector

Website

The UNEP FI Human Rights Guidance Tool for the Financial Sector is designed as an online signposting tool providing information on human rights risks for financial institutions.The tool focuses specifically on human rights issues relevant to the assessment of business relationships and transactions. Links are also provided within each of the sector briefings to the broader environmental and social risk guidance provided by UNEP FI.
UNEP Finance Initiative
Human Rights Impact Assessment [HRIA]
Due Diligence

UNGP Reporting Framework

Website

The UN Guiding Principles [UNGPs] Reporting Framework is the world’s first comprehensive guidance for companies to report on how they respect human rights.
Shift
Human Rights Policy
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
Due Diligence
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights [UNGPs]

UNICEF - Tools on Children's Rights for Companies

Website

The Atlas is just one of many resources available to help companies evaluate their impact on children’s rights. UNICEF has developed a series of tools and guidance documents to help businesses integrate children’s rights into due diligence procedures, and Global Child Forum has developed knowledge products. These are introduced below.
UNICEF
Children's Rights
Due Diligence
Impact Assessment

Uppsala Conflict Data Program [UCDP]

Website

The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) is the world’s main provider of data on organized violence and the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war, with a history of almost 40 years. Its definition of armed conflict has become the global standard of how conflicts are systematically defined and studied.
Uppsala Conflict Data Program [UCDP]
Peace and Conflict

Voluntourism and Child Trafficking Into Orphanages

In accordance with best practice research, FMN works in Nepal and Uganda to remove children from orphanages, both legal and illegal, and return them to their families in a supported manner. FMN works in partnership with the Nepali government through the Central Child Welfare Board (CCWB) to remove children from orphanages after the CCWB has made a decision to close the orphanage.
Forget Me Not Australia [FMN]
ECPAT
Voluntourism
Children's Rights
Human Trafficking
6 pages

WageIndicator - Minimum Wages / Decent Work Check per Country

Website

There is a lack of of coherent labour market information, easy to access, easy to understand, full circle, independent, free of politics in many countries worldwide. The national WageIndicator websites function as online, up to date labour market libraries for workers, employers, governments, academics and media alike.
WageIndicator
Labour Rights
Modern Slavery

Walk Free Foundation

Website

The Walk Free Foundation provides the Secretariat for the Bali Process on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime, and champions business sector engagement in this regional program. It is also advocating strongly for all leading global economies to enact laws to ensure all organisations are held accountable for taking proactive steps to remove modern slavery from their supply chains.
Minderoo Foundation
Modern Slavery
Labour Rights
Non-profit
Supply Chain

Wild Asia - Counselling on Sustainable Tourism

Website

Wild Asia was first established in 2003 as a Malaysian-based social enterprise. We work to help adapt the way consumers, businesses and traders operate, ensuring that they can leave a positive footprint on the developing world. We take a bottom-up approach starting at the very beginning: the raw materials. It is here that we find ways to guide organisations in creating a better environment for their employees, local communities and surrounding biodiversity.
Wild Asia
Sustainability
Environment
Tourism Development