Human rights assessment guidelines

Human rights violations often extend beyond individual projects, plantations, and concession boundaries. Their causes and consequences relate to complex interactions involving multiple levels of government, diverse sectors, and a wide array of stakeholders. Therefore, assessing human rights at the landscape scale is a useful contribution to managing sustainability across larger geographic and governance areas.

Historically, human rights assessments have either been broad risk evaluations at the national level or in-depth, context-specific studies at the project, plantation, supply chain, or community level. These approaches, while valuable, often lack scalability and replicability. LandScale’s landscape-level human rights assessment is a pioneering step towards bridging this gap. However, it is not exhaustive and should not replace the obligations of companies, governments, and other stakeholders to undertake smaller-scale human rights assessments. Instead, it offers a complementary perspective, helping to identify systemic human rights issues, their root causes, and the enabling conditions required to address them effectively.

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