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. 

Menschenrechte konkret!

Empfehlungen zur Entwicklung und Umsetzung von Arbeits- & Sozialstandards für Fahrpersonal im Tourismus

Dieses Arbeitspapier beschreibt konkret für das Fahrpersonal empfohlene Mindestanforderungen für Sozial- und Arbeits-rechtsstandards im Transportsektor und gibt Reiseveranstaltern Empfehlungen zu deren Umsetzung und Monitoring in der Praxis. Die Empfehlungen wurden so erstellt, dass sie möglichst weltweit einsetzbar sind, auch wenn vor Ort Anpassungen an die lokale Situati on nötig werden.
Roundtable Human Rights in Tourism
Labour Rights
Due Diligence
Stakeholder Engagement
8 pages

Menschenrechtliche Risiken und Auswirkungen ermitteln

Perspektiven aus der Unternehmenspraxis

Diese Broschüre gibt einen Einblick in die unterschiedlichen Ausgangssituationen, Motive, Bedarfe und Ansätze von fünf Unternehmen, die begonnen haben, menschenrechtliche Risiken und Auswirkungen ihrer Geschäftstätigkeit zu ermitteln. Sie vermittelt einen Eindruck von Nutzen und Grenzen der jeweils gewählten Ansätze und den Herausforderungen und Lernergebnissen der interviewten Unternehmen.
Global Compact Network Germany
German Institute for Human Rights
Human Rights Risk Assessment [HRRA]
Due Diligence
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
46 pages

My business and human rights

A guide to human rights for small and medium-sized enterprises

This guide will help you to make sure that your business respects human rights. That means avoiding possible negative impacts on human rights and addressing such impacts if your business is involved with them. This guide has been written for small and medium-sized enterprises in the European Union.
European Commission
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights [UNGPs]
Due Diligence
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
28 pages

Myanmar Tourism Sector Wide Impact Assessment Myanmar

The Myanmar Tourism SWIA puts detailed information on potential impacts of the sector into the public domain for uptake and use by a wide range of audiences. It assesses not only localised and cumulatives impacts on individuals and groups that may arise from tourism in specific locations, but also the sector’s potential impacts on Myanmar society as a whole and the choices to be made.
Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business [MCRB]
Danish Institute for Human Rights [DIHR]
Institute for Human Rights and Business [IHRB]
Human Rights Impact Assessment [HRIA]
Stakeholder Engagement
Tourism Stakeholder
234 pages

UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework with implementation guidance

This Reporting Framework puts the corporate responsibility to respect human rights into everyday language: a set of smart, straightforward questions to which any company needs to have answers – inside and outside its own walls. It offers companies a powerful tool to deepen internal conversations, identify gaps in performance and drive improvements in practice.
Shift
Mazars
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
Due Diligence
Human Rights Policy
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights [UNGPs]
114 pages

Destination Mutual Benefit: A Guide to Inclusive Business in Tourism

When tourism companies incorporate local communities and low-income people in their business as employees and entrepreneurs, they create a more authentic, unique, and welcoming experience for guests. While tourism companies strengthen their business foundations, local people gain access to income and development opportunities. This guide shows tourism companies how to discover and reap their inclusive business potential.
Tewes-Gradl Ch.
Pirzer Ch.
van Gaalen M.
endeva
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit [GIZ]
Community-based Tourism [CBT]
Community Impact
Tourism Development
44 pages

Engaging Stakeholders On Children’s Rights

A Tool For Companies

This tool offers guidance to companies on engaging stakeholders on children’s rights as part of enhancing their standards and practices at both the corporate and site levels. Engaging stakeholders on children’s rights can inform the development of company policies, human rights due diligence processes, integrating and acting upon the findings, tracking responses and communicating how impacts are addressed), and the development of grievance and remediation mechanisms.
UNICEF
Stakeholder Engagement
Children's Rights
Due Diligence
Human Rights Policy
32 pages

Gender Budgeting in the City of Reykjavík

Fair distribution of goods and assets according to people’s needs

n this short English version, we describe how Gender Budgeting is to be implemented in the budgeting process. The implementation of Gender Budgeting in Reykjavík is built on the Human Rights Policy of the City and the Act on Equal Status and Equal Rights of Women and Men, No. 10/2008. The Human Rights Policy was first approved by the City Council in May 2006.
The City of Reykjavík
Gender
Equality
14 pages

Setting Social and Environmental Standards

ISEAL Code of Good Practice

SEAL is the global leader in defining and communicating what good practice looks like for sustainability standards through guidance and credibility tools such as the Codes of Good Practice.
ISEAL Alliance
Sustainability
Environment
Code of Conduct
24 pages

Stakeholder Engagement in Human Rights Due Diligence

A Business Guide

This guide aims to highlight how meaningful stakeholder engagement can be designed, as part of a company’s human rights due diligence, and help companies improve their sustainability and ultimately business performance. It does not aim to provide comprehensive answers to all the above questions nor explain in detail how to implement the Guiding Principles.
UN Global Compact
twentyfifty
Stakeholder Engagement
Due Diligence
Human Rights Policy
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
44 pages

Tackling Modern Slavery in Supply Chains

A Guide 1.0

The information in this resource is primarily aimed at procurement, supply chain and sustainability professionals in companies, organisations and governments. It is aimed at those who want concrete guidance on how to reduce or eliminate the risk of modern slavery occurring in their supply chains, either as a direct or indirect result of their procurement practices. Finally, this Guide is intended to be a comprehensive system of meaningful action to address modern slavery.
Walk Free Foundation
Modern Slavery
Labour Rights
Supply Chain
Sustainability
33 pages

The Paradox of Orphanage Volunteering

Combating child trafficking through ethical voluntourism

The report is about explaining to these good-hearted volunteers, donor agencies, NGOs, embassies and the Government of Nepal the things that we are witnessing in Nepal today with orphanage trafficking and its links to voluntourism. Moreover, it offers advice and recommendations for everyone who has a part to play in encouraging ‘ethical voluntourism.
Next Generation Nepal
Children's Rights
Voluntourism
Human Trafficking
64 pages

Business for Social Responsibility: Conducting an Effective Human Rights Impact Assessment

Guidelines, Steps, and Examples

BSR has been conducting human rights due diligence with companies since our founding, a little more than 20 years ago. Over the past two years, we have worked with companies in multiple industries conducting human rights impact assessments (HRIAs) that align with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This report is intended to capture the lessons we have learned and to share our eight guidelines for conducting effective HRIAs.
Business for Social Responsibility [BSR]
Human Rights Impact Assessment [HRIA]
Due Diligence
30 pages

Children’s Rights in Impact Assessments

A guide for integrating children’s rights into impact assessments and taking action for children

This tool provides guidance for companies on assessing their policies and processes as they relate to the responsibility to respect and commitment to support children’s rights. It can be used to integrate child rights considerations into ongoing assessments of overall human rights impacts, as outlined in the UNGPs on Business and Human Rights. Specifically, it offers a number of criteria that companies can use both to review critical areas of potential or actual impact on children.
UNICEF
Danish Institute for Human Rights [DIHR]
Children's Rights
Human Rights Impact Assessment [HRIA]
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
Due Diligence
68 pages

Focus Group Interview as a Tool for Qualitative Research: An Analysis

Focus group interview is one of the valuable tools for collecting qualitative data. In view of extensive literature on the subject, this paper examines the background, purpose, rationale, and various forms of focus groups to be used in qualitative research. Characteristics of moderator, major phases and criteria of successful focus groups have also been discussed.
Latif M. I.
Dilshad R. M.
Human Rights Risk Assessment [HRRA]
8 pages

Innovating CBT in Asean

Current Directions and New Horizons

An important part of the research is to stimulate an exchange of ideas and experiences between government, the private sector, local communities, and other stakeholders. The “Innovating CBT in ASEAN” conference is an important part of the research. This book has two main parts. The first part is a literature review and situation analysis of CBT in the 10 countries of ASEAN. The second part of the document presents case studies, written by practitioners with direct field experience.
Thailand Community Based Tourism Institute [CBT-I]
Community-based Tourism [CBT]
Tourism Development
Stakeholder Engagement
117 pages

Mit kolonialen Grüßen

Berichte und Erzählungen von Auslandsaufenthalten rassismuskritisch betrachtet

Mit dieser Broschüre wollen wir einen ausführlichen und praxisnahen Einstieg in das Thema „Reisen in den Globalen Süden und davon berichten“ geben und dabei insbesondere die Erkenntnisse rassismus- und kolonial-kritischer Forschung und Bewegungen mit einbeziehen. Am Ende der Broschüre findet ihr Literatur, auf die wir uns zum Teil beziehen oder die als Anregungen zum Weiterlesen gedacht ist.
glokal e.V.
Diversity & Inclusion
Human Rights Education
52 pages

Respecting Human Rights

An introductory guide for business

This publication highlights the human rights impacts of business activities. It starts by looking at fundamental human rights principles and the human rights that are particularly relevant in the business context. It will become clear that human rights comprise more than the ‘rights at work’, with which businesses are familiar from the ILO’s core labour standards.
Global Compact Network Germany
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]
Due Diligence
Human Rights Policy
34 pages

Sun, Sand And Ceilings: Women In The Boardroom In The Tourism Industry

Women in the tourism industry are underrepresented at executive levels of the top tourism companies worldwide despite the fact that women make up the majority of the tourism workforce in most countries- The report addresses four key questions: What is the problem? Why does this matter for the tourism industry? Why does this problem exist? What is being done to tackle the problem? We close with a series of recommendations how gender balance in the boardrooms of tourism companies can be improved.
Equality in Tourism
Equality
Gender
Women's Rights/Women Empowerment
13 pages

Sustainable Tourism for Development

Guidebook [2013]

The Guidebook demonstrates how the tourism sector can be a vehicle to foster economic and social growth, through the achievement of development imperatives, while minimizing negative social, cultural and environmental impacts. It highlights in particular the complexity of tourism in its linkages with the whole economic and social fabrics and shows the contrast between its high potential to build better lives for all and the low priority it has been given so far in terms international aid.
World Tourism Organization [UNWTO]
Tourism Development
Sustainability
228 pages