The UN Guiding Principles are the global authoritative standard on the business responsibility to respect human rights, unanimously endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011.
This document takes into account the large amount of new scientific information on working in heat and hot environments. It includes updated information on heat-related illnesses, risk factors affecting heat-related illness, physiological responses to heat, effects of clothing on heat exchange, and recommendations for control and prevention.
The Women’s Empowerment Principles, a partnership initiative of UN Women and UN Global Compact (UNGC), provide a set of considerations to help the private sector focus on key elements integral to promoting gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and community.
The objective of this resource guide is to strengthen the capacities of ILO constituents and development policy makers in the formulation of employment policies. This guide will be of use to ILO experts, as well as others, to embed gender dimensions in national policy frameworks.
These guidelines are intended to help national or regional pesticide regulators with limited resources to design a process to address Highly Hazardous Pesticides that follows the three steps of identification, assessment and mitigation. They also aim to underscore the importance of adequate pesticide legislation, and risk and needs assessment as part of the registration process.
World Health Organization & Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (2016)
A good practice guide for identifying HCVs across different ecosystems and production systems. This document builds on previous Good Practice guides for HCV practitioners assessors and auditors, to provide guidance on interpreting the HCV definitions and their applications, with the goal of providing some degree of standardization in the use of the HCV approach.
This paper, based on a research study commissioned by CNV Internationaal and carried out by Profundo, describes the main reasons behind the absence of a living wage and poor labor conditions. Based on this desktop analysis, we have created a roadmap towards constructive solutions.
Payment for environmental services (PES) are schemes that seek to offer payment to landowners to implement good agricultural practices and protect the environment. In 2020, Bonsucro worked with five other organisations on a study to investigate whether it is possible to implement PES within the sugarcane supply chain by recognising good environmental practices of sugarcane producers as providers for environmental services.
Here is the final report from the study.
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