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Comment Constituency Region Reporting
Relationship
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Content Comment
Should be incorporated into Management Disclosure
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1819-1820 __Report the percentage of new suppliers and other business partners scr...
Report the percentage of new suppliers and other business partners screened for human rights
performance, broken down by the location of the supplier and other business partner.
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Content Comment
Comments on Global Reporting Initiative Proposed draft G4 Guidelines.
I would like to offer one comment on the Human Rights aspect “Investment” at “CORE HR1 Percentage and total number of
significant investment agreements and contracts that include human rights clauses or that have undergone human rights
screening”.
One of the key challenges in the area of Human Rights reporting is the lack of quantitative data. This was noted in the GRI sponsored
report “Reporting on Human Rights” (Global Reporting Initiative, 2009). While environmental and economic results are reported
quantitatively, the Human Rights area contained little quantitative data.
The Core HR1 Aspect is measuring the number of contracts or agreements that include human rights clauses. This is a helpful
measure in that the reader can look for changes from year to year. However, it does not provide an evaluation of the extent to
which the organization is working with suppliers that are conscious of human rights. A more meaningful metric would be the
percentage of purchases that are made through suppliers that are under an agreement with a human rights clause. By computing
the percentage of dollar purchases rather than only the number of agreements, it provides a more meaningful assessment of the
extent to which the entity’s operations are addressing this issue.
This data should be available through and entities purchasing data. Companies regularly track the volume of purchases that are
made with vendors for internal management processes. In addition, companies are attempting to compile more information on
their supply chain activities.
Submitted by,
Robert A. Rebman, CPA MBA
Instructor, Benedictine University, Lisle, IL USA
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1846 Screening for human rights performance __may cover, __ but is not limited to:
may cover,
Comment
Wording Comment
"should at least cover some of the following"
Otherwise the screening might exclude all those criteria and yet be considered a HR screening
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1869 CORE G4 11 Percentage of __existing suppliers __ and other business partners identified
existing suppliers
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