ICMM Human Rights Due Diligence Guidance

This update to ICMM’s 2012 Human Rights Due Diligence Guidance is undertaken against a backdrop of increasing traction of the UNGPs, and of human rights due diligence as an established business practice.

The updated guidance reflects a maturing in how companies integrate ongoing HRDD across the business. This journey includes how companies bring a human rights lens to their everyday activities, assess actual and potential human rights impacts, take responsibility for heightened risks, and integrate the identification and management of human rights impacts into existing company risk management processes, broader organizational structures, business relationships and supply chains.

The guidance includes six supplementary tools intended to help mining companies better integrate human rights into existing risk management approaches. The supplementary tools are:

1) Applying a Human Rights Lens
2) Human Rights Due Diligence Maturity Matrix
3) Assessing Salient Human Rights Issues
4) Approaches to Assessment of Human Rights Impacts
5) Integrating Human Rights in Business Risk Processes
6) Human Rights Due Diligence in Supply Chains