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. 

Action Plan for Businesses

The Centre Stage project will see the National Tourism Administrations, 40 businesses and 16 international NGO’s from Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Jordan and Mexico implement an Action Plan to boost women’s empowerment through tourism during the recovery from COVID-19. The Action Plan contains 10 concrete measures to be implemented by participating businesses within one year from November 2021 to November 2022.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

World Tourism Organization [UNWTO]
Centre Stage: Women's empowerment during the COVID-19 recovery

Topic(s)

Women's Rights/Women Empowerment
Equality
COVID-19
Crisis Management

Year of publication

Length

3 pages
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Addressing consumer awareness and (in)action towards modern slavery

Rapid research report: review of existing evidence

Consumers are implicated in modern slavery through demand for forced labour-produced products and services. This consumer-driven market demand, however, can also be used to exert pressure for positive change through both market-based consumption choices and civic action. This research investigates how consumer attitudes, intentions and behaviour can be mobilised to address modern slavery and to identify what interventions are effective in operationalising consumer action on modern slavery.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre

Topic(s)

Modern Slavery
Labour Rights
Consumer Awareness

Year of publication

Length

37 pages
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Addressing Security and Human Rights Challenges in Complex Environments

The primary audience for this Toolkit is any kind of company facing security and human rights challenges in complex environments. The Toolkit will be useful for company staff working in a wide range of functions, in particular those dealing with security, government relations, business and human rights, corporate social responsibility, community relations, and legal issues.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

The International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC]
Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance [DCAF]

Topic(s)

Risk Assessment
Stakeholder Engagement
Peace and Conflict
Crisis Management

Year of publication

Length

200 pages
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An open-source guide for tour operators to set a science-based target

How to measure and reduce carbon emissions and why offsets are not enough

As the first tour operator to achieve an accredited Science Based Target, Intrepid Travel has worked with consultancy firm NDevr Environmental and Tourism Declares to create an open source guide and version of their methodology. This decarbonisation blueprint sheds light on the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi), the benefits of setting sciense-based targets, selecting the right SBT approach, and the different steps towards decarbonising as a tour operator.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Intrepid Travel
Tourism Declares

Topic(s)

Climate Change
Environment
Tour operator
Sustainability

Year of publication

Length

25 pages
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Außergerichtliche Beschwerdemechanismen entlang globaler Lieferketten

Empfehlungen für die Institutionalisierung, Implementierung und Verfahrensausgestaltung

Die praxisorientierten Leitlinien für die Gestaltung außergerichtlicher Beschwerdemechanismen für Opfer von Menschenrechtsverletzungen entlang globaler Lieferketten wurden im Rahmen eines vom Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz in Auftrag gegebenen Forschungsvorhabens entwickelt. Der Bericht setzt neue Impulse für einen unternehmensübergreifenden Ansatz und bietet dabei Orientierung für Unternehmen bei der Umsetzung des neuen Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetzes.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Gläßer
U.
Pfeiffer
R.
Schmitz
D.
Bond
H.

Topic(s)

Grievance Mechanisms
Supply Chain
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights [UNGPs]

Year of publication

Length

521 pages
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Behavioural Economics

Getting service providers and travellers to choose sustainable options

Behavioural economics draws together insights from different disciplines to help explain human decision-making and behaviours. Using behavioural economics can help us design products and services that promote the sustainable choice as the most likely choice the consumer will make. Highlighting common biases and introducing the behavioural toolset, the report recommends an action plan for the global travel & tourism private sector to support travellers to make more sustainable choices.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

World Travel & Tourism Council
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Topic(s)

Consumer Awareness
Sustainability

Year of publication

Length

12 pages
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Beyond Pride

The Rights of LGBTI People and the Corporate Responsibility to Respect

The resource is not intended to provide exhaustive guidance on the topic; rather, it is to help enable more comprehensive discussions about the role of business in preventing and addressing risk to LGBTI people in their workforce, amongst consumers, in the communities and contexts where they operate and across their operations and value chain.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Shift

Topic(s)

L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+
Diversity & Inclusion
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]

Year of publication

Length

18 pages
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Black Lives Matter & Business

The objective of this document is to support businesses wishing to positively contribute to the Black Lives Matter movement and make their workplaces better, especially for their Black colleagues and future Black recruits. It provides a business case to support the moral case for an inclusive workplace; identifies key challenges; suggests solutions, acknowledging that one size does not fit all; and signposts resources that can provide deeper understanding.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Global Compact Network UK

Topic(s)

Diversity & Inclusion
Equality

Year of publication

Length

24 pages
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Born into the Climate Crisis

Why we must act now to secure children’s rights

The threat posed to children and their rights by the climate crisis is not theoretical: it is real, and it is urgent. Save the Children has partnered with an international team of leading climate researchers led by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel to quantify the extent to which children will experience extreme weather events as a manifestation of climate change, the disparities between generations, and the widening inequality between high-income and low- and middle-income countries.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Ryan
E.
Wakefield
J.
Luthen
S.

Topic(s)

Children's Rights
Climate Change
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
Supply Chain

Year of publication

Length

50 pages
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Business in Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Contexts

Businesses in conflict-affected and high-risk contexts face heightened risks of involvement in serious human rights violations. To prevent and mitigate human rights risks in high-risk contexts, companies should go beyond what is required by the UNGPs by conducting “heightened” human rights due diligence, i.e. accounting for context and the business’s impact on that context.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Business for Social Responsibility [BSR]

Topic(s)

Peace and Conflict
Due Diligence
Community Impact

Year of publication

Length

7 pages
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Business Model Red Flags

Website

Shift’s Business Model Red Flags is a set of indicators that may be found in dominant or emerging business models in and across a range of sectors. They are intended for the use of business leaders seeking to identify and address risks to people that may be embedded in the business model, in order to ensure the resilience of value propositions and strategic decisions.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Shift

Topic(s)

Risk Assessment
Due Diligence
Supply Chain

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Checked Out

Migrant Worker Abuse in Qatar’s World

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (the Resource Centre) invited 19 hotel companies, representing more than 100 global brands with over 80 properties across Qatar, to participate in a second survey on their approach to safeguarding migrant workers’ rights in the country

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Topic(s)

Modern Slavery
Migrant Workers
Hospitality

Year of publication

Length

37 pages
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Child Labour

Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward

What the report tells us is alarming. Global progress against child labour has stalled for the first time since we began producing global estimates two decades ago. In addition, without urgent mitigation measures, the COVID-19 crisis is likely to push millions more children into child labour. These results constitute an important reality check in meeting the international commitment to end child labour by 2025.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

International Labour Organization [ILO]
United Nations [UN]

Topic(s)

Children's Rights
Labour Rights
Modern Slavery

Year of publication

Length

88 pages
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Child Labour Working Group: 2020 Annual Report

In 2019, the Global Compact Network UK launched a Child Labour Working Group (CLWG) to debate, discuss, and share the challenges of working to eliminate child labour and WFCL in supply chains. The Child Labour Working Group 2020 Annual Report summarises the key takeaways from UNGC UK's 2020 Child Labour Working Group meetings. Key features include an overview of child labour, discussing the challenges businesses face when tackling child labour, and highlighting possible tools and solutions.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Delgado
B.
Mizzi
M.

Topic(s)

Children's Rights
Labour Rights
Due Diligence
Risk Assessment

Year of publication

Length

12 pages
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Climate Change: Building Resilience While Protecting Human Rights

Human rights and climate change are inextricably linked. Connecting the dots, the report sheds light on different risks related to physical climate impacts and risks related to the transition to a low-carbon economy and derives the responsibilities and opportunities in a business context. Exploring the changing landscape for companies, it recommends a foresight-driven approach to factor the changing macro context into the design of robust policies, strategies, and programs.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Darnton H.
Harris S.
Park J.

Topic(s)

Climate Change
Environment
Community Impact
Due Diligence
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights [UNGPs]

Year of publication

Length

36 pages
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Conflict Prevention Tool

Developing Multi-Stakeholder Strategies

The tool is designed to be practical, non-prescriptive, and user-friendly, to facilitate smooth integration into existing business processes and to improve corporate risk assessments. The tool is particularly relevant for companies with operations in fragile and conflict affected contexts, but the time required for the conflict analysis will vary based on each company’s unique conflict analysis requirements and the number of stakeholders included in consultations.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance [DCAF]

Topic(s)

Crisis Management
Peace and Conflict
Stakeholder Engagement

Year of publication

Length

18 pages
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Cost of Living, Living Wages, and Minimum Wages in EU-27 countries

In the last decade the concept of living wage has received renewed international attention. This report describes the calculation of living wage in the EU-27 countries. It sheds light on the debates in the subject and consists of 27 case studies.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Guzi M.

Topic(s)

Labour Rights

Year of publication

Length

38 pages
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COVID-19 and Tourism - An Update

Assessing the economic consequences

Tourism is one of the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, the number of international tourist arrivals declined by 84 per cent between March and December 2020 compared with the previous year, according to data observed by UNWTO. Based on a range of tourist arrivals’ projections, the report quantifies the potential economic effects of the contraction in tourism in 2021. The indirect effects are significant.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

United Nations [UN]

Topic(s)

COVID-19
Tourism Development

Year of publication

Length

23 pages
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Destination 2030

Tourism changes people | regions | the world

In over 60 projects being implemented around the world By the Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (Giz) Gmbh, tourism plays a role in the sustainable development of entire regions. Discover five of these projects in this magazine.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit [GIZ]

Topic(s)

Tourism Development
Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]
Sustainability

Year of publication

Length

24 pages
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Eliminating Child Labour

Recommendations for Business Action

Global progress to end child labour has stalled for the first time in 20 years. This briefing paper outlines the ways companies impact children’s rights and the actions businesses can take to help eliminate child labour. Deriving insights from the cobalt mining and cocoa industries, it provides key takeways and recommendations for companies that can be adapted as necessary to align with the specific requirements of individual companies.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Löning Human Rights & Responsible Business

Topic(s)

Children's Rights
Due Diligence

Year of publication

Length

9 pages
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