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Business & Human Rights – Manage the Risk, Prove the Respect
Human-rights failures in your operations, contractors or supply chain are now a business risk. As independent business and human rights consultants, we help you find it, fix it and disclose it, in line with the UN Guiding Principles.
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What We Offer
Business & Human Rights Services – From Risk Detection to Disclosure
Wherever you are – a first assessment, an active due diligence, or a reporting deadline – we meet you there. Six services, one connected pathway.
Gap & Maturity Assessment
Know exactly where you stand before anyone else asks. A protocol-based, company-specific assessment of how mature your human-rights management really is.
Covers: systems, policy & practice, scored by risk, across own, contractor and supply-chain people.
Due Diligence & Impact Assessment
Find and size the human-rights risks that could hurt your business. Independent human rights due diligence (HRDD) and impact assessment (HRIA), built for compliance, investment and M&A.
Includes: risk assessment, impact assessment, mitigation roadmap, remediation planning.
Advisory & Implementation
Turn a gap report into a working system. We build the governance framework and stay with you through implementation and capacity building.
Includes: policies & strategy, internal standards, grievance mechanism, hand-holding.
Training & Capacity Building
Make human rights something your people can actually run – from leadership to the shop floor.
Covers: B&HR, HRDD, grievance management, POSH, DEI, SA8000, social compliance, living wage.
Independent Employee Survey
Hear what your people won't tell you directly. A confidential, independent third-party survey on human-rights issues.
Gives you: a clear read on perception, plus a list of action items you can own.
Reporting & Disclosure
Prove your human-rights performance to the people now asking – with data that stands up to assurance.
Covers: standalone B&HR report, BRSR / BRSR Core inputs, GRI 401–412, SASB, ESRS S1/S2, DJSI.
Business & Human Rights Training
Understand how human rights due diligence, remedy and responsible business conduct apply to your organisation — led by Consultivo's advisory team.
One Protocol. Four Applications.
The same PRISM engine - 6 clusters, 20 elements, dual-track scoring - powers four assessment outputs. This page covers the HR Audit; the others have pages of their own.
Business & Human Rights Audit
A business and human rights review against global standards.
You're hereHR Due Diligence
People, cost and compliance risk for a merger, acquisition or investment.
ExploreHR Audit
An independent, scored review of your whole people function.
ExploreB&HR Due Diligence
Human rights risk assessment for deals and investments.
ExploreWhy Consultivo
Four Reasons Clients Choose Us for B&HR
Very few firms, anywhere, can do all of this under one roof. That is our edge.
Independent & IFC-Approved
An IFC (World Bank Group) approved independent consultant. The credibility your board, buyers and investors need.
Rare Depth in Global Standards
Fluent across 20+ human-rights codes and standards – and we have written several ourselves. Globally, few firms can match this.
Full Value-Chain Reach
Own people, contractors and supply chain – across 300+ locations and 1M+ supply-chain workers. Risk hides where others don't look.
Assessment to Disclosure
One partner from first gap assessment to assured disclosure – mapped to BRSR, GRI and ESRS. No hand-offs, no gaps.
Why Now
Human Rights Has Become a Board-Level Risk
The question has changed. It is no longer "are we being responsible?" It is "can we prove it – and what happens if we can't?"
Disclosure Is Now Assured, Not Narrative
Under SEBI's BRSR Core, reasonable assurance reaches the top 1,000 listed companies by FY 2026-27 – and the assured data includes social and labour metrics. Human-rights data now has to be auditable.
Global Buyers Cascade Due Diligence
Large global brands must run human-rights due diligence across their value chains, on the UN Guiding Principles and OECD Guidance. That expectation flows straight down to their suppliers.
Reputation & Market Access Are on the Line
Buyer codes, ESG ratings and forced-labour scrutiny mean a single unmanaged issue – child labour, forced labour, unsafe conditions, unpaid wages – can cost contracts, capital and brand.
Negative impacts on people can't be offset by "doing good" elsewhere. And compliance with local law alone may not meet global expectations. That gap is the risk we help you close.
How We Work
A Due-Diligence Process Built on the UN Guiding Principles
From a human rights due diligence to an impact assessment, the arc is the same – and it is what makes the output defensible.
Identify
Human-rights risks and impacts across your operations and value chain.
Assess
Severity and likelihood, scored on a maturity model.
Integrate & Act
Embed findings and take prioritised action.
Track
Monitor the effectiveness of the response.
Communicate
Disclose how impacts are being addressed.
Our Implementation Pathway
Scope
The Full Picture of Workplace Rights
Within Your Organisation
Your own people and your direct operations.
Your Supply & Value Chain
Contractors, suppliers and downstream partners.
The Human-Rights Issues We Assess
Proof at Scale
An Independent Human-Rights Risk Advisor – Not a Box-Ticker
Where We've Worked
Proof From the Field
A few of the human-rights engagements we have led across sectors and geographies.
HRDD for a Brownfield Expansion
Human-rights due diligence on a large brownfield steel expansion and opencast mining in conflict-affected regions, for an International Investment Body – followed by human-rights audits for consecutive years.
HRDD Across the Supply Chain
A series of HRDD exercises for an agribusiness supply chain, for a group of international buyers, across remote tea-producing regions (5 states, 100+ units), for an International Industry Association.
Gap Assessment & Hand-Holding (DISHA)
Human-rights baseline assessment and full implementation support across 25+ small and medium enterprises, through to final verification audit.
Writing the Codes Others Audit To
Developed four human-rights and responsible-business standards and audit protocols for the mineral-mining and agribusiness sectors – including CORE (Code of Responsible Extraction) and a Castor Code – for clients such as Solidaridad and Unilever.
Organisations That Trusted Us on Human-Rights Issues
Amalgamated Plantations (Tata Group) – APSITE standard across 25 plantations · Ethical Tea Partnership – assessor & implementer across 400+ tea estates since 2009 · Rainforest Alliance · SMETA / Sedex · UTI Mutual Fund – due-diligence protocol · IFC – PRAN · Solidaridad · Unilever.
Standards & Guidelines
Grounded in Every Framework That Matters
Depth across global human-rights standards is a genuine Consultivo differentiator – worldwide, very few firms carry this range.
Protect
The state's duty to protect against human-rights abuses.
Respect
Your corporate responsibility to respect human rights – where we do most of our work.
Remedy
Access to effective remedy when things go wrong.
Explore Our HR Consulting & Advisory Services
1. Rights, Equity & Inclusion
2. Governance, Risk & HR Compliance
3. Culture, Engagement & Training
4. Reporting & Disclosure
Knowledge Zone
Take Something Useful With You
Whether or not you work with us, here's practical B&HR knowledge you can use today.
The Essential Guide to Human Rights Due Diligence
What HRDD is, the UNGP-aligned steps, and why it protects your business beyond ethics.
Read the Guide →A Practical Guide to Human Rights Impact Assessment
What an HRIA covers, how it differs from due diligence, and how to run one.
Read the Guide →Business & Human Rights: The Risks and the Rewards
Why B&HR is now a boardroom risk – and the rewards of getting it right.
Read the Insight →Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is Business and Human Rights (B&HR)?
Business and human rights (B&HR) is a company's responsibility to respect human rights across its own operations, its contractors and its supply chain. It is guided by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which set out a duty to protect, respect and remedy.
Why Is Business and Human Rights Now a Business Risk?
A human-rights failure can now trigger regulatory penalty, lost buyer contracts, investor downgrades and reputational damage. In India, SEBI's BRSR Core brings reasonable assurance of social and labour data to the top 1,000 listed companies by FY 2026-27. Global brands must run human-rights due diligence across their value chains, and that expectation flows down to their suppliers.
What Is Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD)?
Human rights due diligence (HRDD) is a structured process to identify, assess, act on, track and communicate a company's actual and potential human-rights impacts, across its operations and value chain, in line with the UN Guiding Principles and OECD Guidance.
How Is a Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) Different From Due Diligence?
Human rights due diligence is the ongoing management process. A Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) is a deeper, point-in-time study of how a specific operation, project or site affects rights-holders. An HRIA usually feeds into the wider due-diligence cycle.
Do You Cover Our Contractors and Supply Chain, or Only Our Own Employees?
Both. We assess your own people (your circle of control) and your contractor, supply and value-chain people (your circle of influence), because that is where most human-rights risk sits.
We Are an Exporter or Supplier to Global Brands. Do We Need This?
Very likely yes. Global buyers increasingly require human-rights due diligence, ethical audits and disclosure from their suppliers. A defensible B&HR programme protects your contracts and your market access.
Find Your Human-Rights Risk Before It Finds You
Tell us where you are – a disclosure deadline, a buyer audit, an investment, or a first assessment. We’ll tell you how we can help.
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How We Help Keep Your People in Focus
Responsible business starts with understanding your obligations to people. Start with structured HR Audit Services to surface exposure before it escalates, protect value through transactions with HR due diligence, and build ethical, rights-respecting operations through our business and human rights advisory, POSH compliance and audit services and SA8000 certification support. When the board needs credible workforce metrics, our human capital reporting aligned to ISO 30414 turns people data into decision-ready insight.
Respecting people’s rights is where culture begins, not where it ends. Our DEI consulting and DEI training help translate inclusion commitments into everyday behaviour, while a gender audit and gender pay gap reporting give you an evidence base for fair, transparent progress. Understand what your people truly think through our employee engagement surveys, strengthen role clarity and talent decisions with competency mapping and assessment centres, and upskill your teams through our HR training courses.
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