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. 

The world’s worst countries for workers Executive Summary

The 2021 Global Rights Index documents a shameful roll call of governments and companies who have pursued an anti-union agenda in the face of workers who have stood on the front line providing essential work to keep economies and communities functioning.
International Trade Union Confederation [ITUC]
COVID-19
Labour Rights
Modern Slavery
62 pages

Tourism and Human Rights: A Complex Relationship

The objective of this article is to contribute to the understanding and discussion of the relationship between human rights and tourism. This topic has emerged, above all, in the wake of the discussion on ethics and social responsibility, frequently in a very polarized way in some public debate, and in very generic and non-discussed terms in declarations of intergovernmental organizations. It takes more than that.
Ferraz J.
Serpa S.
General Human Rights Information
15 pages

Tourism and visitation to protected areas amid COVID-19

Guidance for protected area authorities and managers

Managers of protected areas that usually have visitors are under pressure to provide facilities safely, but there are challenges to doing so given rapidly changing conditions and new health and safety requirements. The purpose of this document is to provide pragmatic guidance to protected area managers and authorities on operating tourism safely amid the COVID-19 crisis.
European Commission
COVID-19
15 pages

UNWTO Inclusive Recovery Guide - Sociocultural Impacts of COVID-19

Issue 3: Women in tourism

The UNWTO Inclusive Recovery Guides on the sociocultural impacts of COVID-19 are living guidelines, subject to revision as the health situation evolves and more information becomes available on the most effective ways to make tourism inclusive and accessible for all.
World Tourism Organization [UNWTO]
COVID-19
Women's Rights/Women Empowerment
Equality
Diversity & Inclusion
12 pages

UNWTO Inclusive Recovery Guide - Sociocultural Impacts of COVID-19

Issue 4: Indigenous Communities

The UNWTO Inclusive Recovery Guides on the sociocultural impacts of COVID-19 are living guidelines. The document is subject to revision as the health situation evolves and more information becomes available on the most effective ways to make Indigenous tourism inclusive, fair and accessible for all
World Tourism Organization [UNWTO]
COVID-19
Indigenous Peoples / Minorities Rights
Diversity & Inclusion
12 pages

Welche Auswirkungen hat die Covid-19-Pandemie auf die sexuelle Ausbeutung von Kindern?

ECPAT International hat schon im April 2020 in einer Zusammenstellung erste Anhaltspunkte formuliert, wie sich die COVID-19-Pandemie auf die sexuelle Ausbeutung von Kindern auswirken könnte. Im vorliegenden Positionspapier nimmt ECPAT Entwicklungen weltweit und in Deutschland in den Blick und benennt Auswirkungen auf Kinderschutz in Institutionen, auf die sexuelle Ausbeutung mittels digitaler Medien, auf Kinderschutz auf Reisen und im Tourismus und auf Menschenhandel zum Nachteil Minderjähriger.
ECPAT
Children's Rights
Sexual Exploitation/Sexual Harassment
COVID-19
12 pages

How Hospitality Harbours Modern Slavery

Website

Modern slavery is a serious issue for the hospitality sector. When the public imagines slavery, a majority might picture men and women being kept as property through the threat of violence. As undeniably evocative as these images are though, modern slavery is multi-faceted, encompassing many different forms of forced labour. While more ‘traditional’ or ‘chattel’ forms of slavery are still prevalent, these cases are only one aspect of a wider issue. Often the means by which people are enslaved in the modern world are more complex and difficult to detect.
Mekong Club
Hospitality
Modern Slavery
Women's Rights/Women Empowerment
9 pages

World Report 2020

World Report 2020 is Human Rights Watch’s 30th annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It summarizes key human rights issues in more than 100 countries and territories worldwide, drawing on events from late 2018 through November 2019. The book reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff undertook in 2019, usually in close partnership with human rights activists and groups in the country in question.
Human Rights Watch
General Human Rights Information
335 pages

10 Practical Tipps on human rights due diligence in core business operations

This brochure contains ten practical tips for integrating human rights due diligence and shows you how to establish processes for human rights due diligence at your company and what you need to take into account. We are happy to provide you with in-depth free and confidential advice on any questions you may have relating to human rights and how you can set up a robust environmental and social management system.
Agentur für Wirtschaft & Entwicklung [AWE]
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
National Action Plan
Due Diligence
26 pages

An Inclusion Imperative: Gender Diversity In The Travel Industry

Diversity is the representation of varying characteristics, perspectives, and backgrounds while inclusion is the harmonization of those values. While this paper will examine gender diversity in the travel and tourism industry, the principles we’ll cover are not limited to gender diversity alone. This report examines why diversity and inclusion matters in the workplace, with case studies that illustrate how companies can continually strive to be more diverse and more inclusive.
PhocusWire
Equality
Gender
Diversity & Inclusion
20 pages

Beyond CSR

The Story of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

This paper is intended for corporate lawyers who increasingly are being asked to advise their clients on business and human rights issues. It addresses the far-reaching implications of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (‘UNGPs’), which the UN Human Rights Council unanimously endorsed in 2011, following six years of multistakeholder consultations, research, and pilot projects.
Harvard Kennedy School
Sherman II J. F.
Human Rights Policy
National Action Plan
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
Due Diligence
Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights [UNGPs]
41 pages

Black Lives Matter

Putting Human Rights at the Heart of Corporate Response

The progressive responses by some businesses to the Black Lives Matter protests, and the systemic racism they are calling attention to, have been framed as voluntary commitments of socially conscious companies. In fact, all businesses have an ironclad responsibility to address their connections to these underlying inequalities, as set out in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This briefing note sets out some of the implications of this responsibility
Shift
Diversity & Inclusion
Due Diligence
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
6 pages

Crosscutting: Stakehoder Engagement

Human Rights Impact Assessment Guidance and Toolbox

In this document you will find the Guidance text on Stakeholder Engagement of the Human Rights Impact Assessment Guidance and Toolbox. You can find the full up-to-date version 2020 of the Human Rights Impact Assessment Guidance and Toolbox from the Danish Institute for Human Rights also in the Resource Center.
Danish Institute for Human Rights [DIHR]
Human Rights Impact Assessment [HRIA]
Impact Assessment
Due Diligence
Stakeholder Engagement
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights [UNGPs]
43 pages

Human Rights Impact Assessment

Toolbox and Guidance

The purpose of this Guidance and Toolbox is to provide those who are involved in conducting, commissioning, reviewing or monitoring Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) of business projects and activities with guidance and practical tools, with a view to ensuring that such assessments apply a human rights-based approach and are consistent with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UN Guiding Principles).
Danish Institute for Human Rights [DIHR]
Götzmann N.
Bansal T.
Wrzoncki E.
Poulsen-Hansen C.
Human Rights Impact Assessment [HRIA]
Impact Assessment
Human Rights Risk Assessment [HRRA]
Stakeholder Engagement
Due Diligence
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights [UNGPs]
160 pages

Human Rights Impact Assessment

Guidance and Toolbox

This Road-testing version of the HumanRights Impact Assessment (HRIA) Guidance and Toolbox is based on DIHR materials and experiences, input from expert reviewers, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and international human rights instruments, as well as public domain sources on impact assessment.
Götzmann N.
Bansal T.
Wrzoncki E.
Poulsen-Hansen C.
Tedaldi J.
Høvsgaard R.
Danish Institute for Human Rights [DIHR]
Human Rights Impact Assessment [HRIA]
Due Diligence
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights [UNGPs]
160 pages

Human Rights Impact Assessment Thailand & Myanmar

A value-chain-focused human rights impact assessment conducted by the Roundtable Human Rights in Tourism e. V

This report summarizes the key findings of the value-chain-focused human rights impact assessment (HRIA) conducted in Thailand and in Myanmar from a European tour operator's (TO) perspective in September 2019. It provides ideas for concrete measures for European TOs to enhance the positive and mitigate the negative impacts of their touristic activities on human rights in the two countries and identifies lessons for TOs conducting further HRIAs in line with the UN Guiding Principles.
Roundtable Human Rights in Tourism
focusright
Human Rights Impact Assessment [HRIA]
Due Diligence
Stakeholder Engagement
Tourism Stakeholder
72 pages

Inclusion & Diversity Guidelines

The following high-level guidelines, were compiled to support Travel & Tourism businesses of all sizes, provide an inclusive work environment for all individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, ability, including physical, mental, and/or sensory impairments, first language, socio-economic status, citizenship and/or country of origin, faith, religion or spiritual affiliation, age or marital status.
World Travel & Tourism Council
Diversity & Inclusion
Equality
8 pages

Kinderschutz im Geschäftsreisebereich

Maßnahmen zum Schutz von Minderjährigen vor sexueller Ausbeutung im Kontext von Geschäftsreisen ─Status Quo, Praxisbeispiele & Handlungsempfehlungen

Ziel der Expertise war es, einen umfassenden Einblick in die Thematik des Kinderschutzes vor sexueller Ausbeutung im Geschäftsreisebereich zu gewinnen.
ECPAT
Children's Rights
Sexual Exploitation/Sexual Harassment
Code of Conduct
Human Rights Policy
Business Travel
21 pages

Kompass

Handbuch zur Menschenrechtsbildung für die schulische und außerschulische Bildungsarbeit

KOMPASS wendet sich an alle, die an Menschenrechten interessiert sind und sich engagieren wollen. Das Handbuch setzt keine Erfahrungen mit Unterricht oder der Durchführung von Aktivitäten voraus und gibt ausführliche Hilfestellungen für die Durchführung der Aktivitäten und für deren Anpassung und Weiterentwicklung entsprechend den Bedürfnissen der Lernenden und den praktischen Gegebenheiten.
German Institute for Human Rights
General Human Rights Information
Human Rights Education
604 pages

LGBT+ Equality in the Workplace

A bilingual resource guide for employers in Myanmar

This Guide was created by the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business in collaboration with Colors Rainbow. It is intended to help senior managers in companies, whether large or small, Myanmar or foreign, to gain a better understanding of key concepts related to LGBT+ rights in Myanmar.
Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business [MCRB]
Color Rainbow
Labour Rights
L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+
Equality
31 pages