Recommendations for National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights
3) Ultimately, NAPs seek to encourage business enterprises to establish their own
human rights management system.
B. Major Tasks
In order to build a proper human rights management system which would work in reality,
strategic approaches are required, taking account of the different business sizes and types.
1) Institutionalization of human rights management by public institutions
ⅰ. Government ministries directly call on the heads of public institutions under their
control to implement human rights management and make their performances
public.
ⅱ. Each ministry induces and encourages heads of affiliated public institutions
to exercise their influence on business enterprises through credit, investment
and loans so that the business enterprises would carry out corporate
responsibility to respect human rights.
2) Recommendation to large corporations for human rights management
ⅰ. Respect for human rights is not legally prescribed as an obligation of
corporations, and hence it is not possible to directly require private companies
to conduct human rights management..
ⅱ. Various policy measures can be taken to encourage private companies. Some
examples are: to provide information and guidelines on human rights
management; to create favorable public opinions on companies with human
rights management through training of and publicity for companies and
consumer organizations; to identify best practices of human rights management
and to provide policy support; to introduce a mandatory system for disclosure
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