Resource Center

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

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Independent Review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015: Final Report

The world-leading Modern Slavery Act was introduced in2015 to tackle modern slavery in this country and set anexample for other countries seeking to do the same. Four years on, manyeffects ofthe Act are apparent. It gives law enforcement agencies the tools to tackle modern slavery offences, including a maximum life sentencefor perpetrators and enhancedprotectionfor victims.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Modern Slavery Unit

Topic(s)

Labour Rights
Modern Slavery

Year of publication

Length

150 pages
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Inhospitable

How hotels in Qatar & the UAE are failing migrant workers

Gulf countries working to diversify their economies are investing in hospitality, with the 2020 World Expo in Dubai and 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar driving much of the regional sector’s growth. Migrant labour will be the backbone of hotels’ efforts to accommodate the influx of people visiting the region. Managed well, this can bring shared prosperity to the Gulf States, and to migrant workers and their families.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Topic(s)

Migrant Workers
Labour Rights
Modern Slavery
Hospitality

Year of publication

Length

25 pages
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MNEs, human rights and the SDGs

The moderating role of business and human rights governance

This paper integrates human rights into the policy debate about the role of business activities in sustainable development. Drawing on the business and human rights (BHR) governance framework suggested by Zagelmeyer (2020), which analyses the governance mechanisms and structures that govern the relationships between human rights duty-bearers and rights-holders in the business and human rights field, the paper argues that BHR governance – as an institutional form of sustainability governance.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Zagelmeyer S.
Sinkovics R. R.

Topic(s)

Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]
Sustainability
Human Rights Policy

Year of publication

Length

30 pages
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Nachhaltigkeitsbericht 2019/2020

mit integrierter Umwelterklärung gemäß EMAS III

Die Umstellung auf die Global-Reporting-Initiative-Richtlinien GRI G3.1 auf GRI G4 erforderte eine Ermittlung und Anpassung der Berichtsinhalte für das Berichtsjahr 2015/2016. Dies wurde anhand einer Wesentlichkeitsanalyse unter Berücksichtigung der von der GRI vorgegebenen Struktur sowie deren Grundsätzen erreicht. Die Grundsätze fordern eine verstärkte Einbindung der Stakeholder, einen Nachhaltigkeitskontext sowie den Bezug zur Wesentlichkeit und Vollständigkeit.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Studiosus

Topic(s)

Stakeholder Engagement
Tourism Stakeholder
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
Due Diligence

Year of publication

Length

108 pages
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Recommendations on Sustainable Development of Indigenous Tourism

The Recommendations address some of the key questions regarding indigenous tourism: How can indigenous tourism result in equitable partnerships? How can tourism experiences benefit both communities and tourism operators? How can tour operators contribute to the empowerment of indigenous communities? How can guides promote indigenous culture while enriching the experience for the visitors? How can communities be drivers of tourism entrepreneurship and protect their resources? And many more...

Author(s) / Editor(s)

World Tourism Organization [UNWTO]

Topic(s)

Indigenous Peoples / Minorities Rights
Community Impact
Community-based Tourism [CBT]

Year of publication

Length

25 pages
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Tourism, Land Grabs and Displacement

A Study with Particular Focus on the Global South

This study examines the global scope of tourism-related grabbing of land and other natural resources and its diverse expressions and mechanisms, for instance by enclosing territories, evicting communities, extracting natural resources and erasing livelihood opportunities. Particular emphasis is placed on countries and regions in the Global South where land and resource rights of communities and individuals tend to be less protected by existing legal frameworks and social safeguard mechanisms.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Neef A.

Topic(s)

Land Rights
Community Impact
Tourism Development

Year of publication

Length

140 pages
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Unternehmen und Menschenrechte

Gesetzliche Verpflichtungen zur Sorgfalt im weltweiten Vergleich

In der vorliegenden Studie werden elf weltweite Regulierungsansätze vorgestellt, die alle das Thema der nachhaltigen Lieferketten in den Blick nehmen. Hier gibt es ganz unterschiedliche regulative Ansätze: sei es die Frage nach unterschiedlichen Formen von Menschenrechtsverletzungen (Verbot von Kinderarbeit, Verbot von Formen moderner Sklaverei etc.) oder der Versuch, Regionen auf eine Weise zu adressieren, die bewirkt, dass es zumindest dort zu keinen Menschenrechtsverletzungen kommt.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Topic(s)

Due Diligence
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
Supply Chain

Year of publication

Length

64 pages
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Watch Out for Human Rights in Tourism

The role of tour guides

Guideline for tour guides how to communicate human-rights-related topics and how to handle human rights issues responsibly.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Naturefriends International

Topic(s)

Human Rights Education
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]

Year of publication

Length

12 pages
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Women in Business and Management

The business case for change - Executive summary

This research finds that the share of women in managerial positions across the globe is growing considerably. From 2002, a steady upward trend of women filling the ranks at greater speed than men are seen, particularly in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe and Central Asia.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

International Labour Organization [ILO]

Topic(s)

Diversity & Inclusion
Women's Rights/Women Empowerment
Gender
Equality

Year of publication

Length

149 pages
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Worth Listening - Understanding and implementing human rights grievance management

A business guide

This guide is intended to assist companies, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in designing effective human rights grievance mechanisms. It provides practical advice and case studies, which show that your business is not expected to come up with a perfect, one-size-fits-all solution.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Global Compact Network Germany

Topic(s)

Grievance Mechanisms
Due Diligence

Year of publication

Length

60 pages
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Child Safeguarding Toolkit For Business

a step-by-step guide to identifying and preventing risks to children who interact with your business

This toolkit​​ is a practical tool that allows companies to identify, assess and address risks to children they interact with; aiming at preventing any physical, sexual and emotional abuse and maltreatment by employees and other persons whom the company is responsible for. The Toolkit guides companies through six steps in the process of assessing their safeguarding risks and developing a child safeguarding program.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

UNICEF

Topic(s)

Children's Rights
Human Rights Risk Assessment [HRRA]
Human Rights Policy

Year of publication

Length

36 pages
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Child Welfare and the Travel Industry

Global Good Practice Guidelines

These guidelines are intended to assist travel companies in reinforcing and implementing good practices in child welfare both within and outside your business, to ensure that you are not only protecting children at all interaction points, but also protecting your staff and reputation. They will enable your business to respond in an appropriate and timely way to any child protection issue that may arise and will provide outcomes that will always be in the best interests of the child.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

ChildSafe movement
G Adventures Responsible Travel

Topic(s)

Due Diligence
Children's Rights

Year of publication

Length

13 pages
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From Volunteering to Voluntourism

Challenges for the reponsible development of a growing trend

Challenges for the Responsible Development of a Growing Travel Trend. Voluntourismus- this means short-term volunteering with high adventure and experiential content - has become increasingly important in the past years in Germany.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Tourism Watch

Topic(s)

Voluntourism
Tourism Development

Year of publication

Length

24 pages
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Gender dimensions in tourism work

This report aims to develop a proposal on how to analyse tourism work from a gender perspective. To this end, we intend to clarify, from the existing bibliography and our own research, what seem to us to be a series of fundamental questions: How can women’s work in tourism be addressed? What is and what is meant by the feminisation of tourism work? What are the key issues of gender analysis in tourism work?

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Alba Sud

Topic(s)

Gender
Equality
Women's Rights/Women Empowerment

Year of publication

Length

36 pages
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Global Report on Inclusive Tourism Destinations

Model and success stories

This Global Report: Inclusive Tourism Destinations has been drawn up by the team of the global it firm in collaboration with the World Tourism Organization. It sets out a Model for inclusive tourism destinations from a supply point of view, in which inclusion refers to the capacity of the tourism system to integrate disadvantaged groups so that they can participate in, and benefit from, tourism activity.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

World Tourism Organization [UNWTO]
globaldit

Topic(s)

Tourism Development
Diversity & Inclusion
Human Rights Policy

Year of publication

Length

114 pages
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Handbook on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender And Queer [LGBTQ] Travel Segment

This handbook’s results encompass contextual quantitative and qualitative information on the characteristics, motivations, and travel patterns of travellers from this segment. The purpose of the report is to encourage Europe ́s competitiveness as an LGBTQ-friendly destination and identify gaps where it is lagging behind other competing regions around the world.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

European Travel Commission [ETC]

Topic(s)

L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+

Year of publication

Length

78 pages
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OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct

The objective of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct (Guidance) is to provide practical support to enterprises on the implementation of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises by providing plain language explanations of its due diligence recommendations and associated provisions.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

OECD

Topic(s)

Due Diligence
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights [UNGPs]

Year of publication

Length

100 pages
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Promoting Anti-Corruption Collective Action through Global Compact Local Networks

The Tenth Principle of the United Nations Global Compact calls upon businesses to work against corruption in all its forms, including bribery and extortion. The UN Global Compact encourages businesses to develop policies and programs to tackle the issue, and Goal 16 of the Sustainable governments and businesses alike.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

UN Global Compact

Topic(s)

Code of Conduct
Human Rights Policy
Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]

Year of publication

Length

10 pages
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Putting people centre stage - ABN AMRO Group N.V. Human Rights Report 2018

ABN AMRO today releases its second Human Rights Report, underpinned by the reporting guidelines of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. A significant part of the report is dedicated to people in vulnerable positions, be it retail clients with debt issues or children labouring in the supply chains of companies the bank finances. In other words, this ranges from people known to the bank, such as its clients and employees, to large groups of people that are not in direct contact.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

ABN AMRO Group N.V.

Topic(s)

Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
Due Diligence
Stakeholder Engagement
Human Rights Policy
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights [UNGPs]

Year of publication

Length

76 pages
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Seizing Opportunities, Minimising Risks: Empowering Women in the Supply Chain

Approaches and Case Studies for Business

This brochure outlines the particular risks to which women are exposed in global supply chains and the options available to businesses for achieving a positive impact. The Women’s Empowerment Principles (see left) can help with implementation. With reference to case studies, the following will illustrate how businesses can uphold women’s rights all along their supply chains, and the positive effects this can have on businesses themselves.

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Global Compact Network Germany

Topic(s)

Women's Rights/Women Empowerment
Supply Chain
Due Diligence

Year of publication

Length

16 pages
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