Safeguarding actions include those that the organisation or group takes to: • • • • • • protect children from abuse and neglect prevent harm to children’s health and wellbeing ensure children have a voice in decisions that affect them9 empower children to reach their full potential actively promote the inclusion and participation of children build a child safe culture and environment. In this report, safeguarding concerns both children and other specific groups as identified by FIFA and set out in section 3.3(e) of this report, unless otherwise indicated. Salient human rights risks The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs)10 require business enterprises to identify their ‘severe human rights risks’ but acknowledge that they may need to prioritise which risks should be addressed first. The UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework (UNGPs Reporting Framework) asks that they focus their reporting on their ‘salient human rights issues’, which will vary from one enterprise to another. Salient human rights risks are those human rights that are at risk of the most severe negative impacts through a company’s activities or business relationships. United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) The UNGPs are the global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse impacts on human rights linked to business activity, and they provide the internationally-accepted framework for enhancing standards and practices with regard to business and human rights. The UNGPs were developed by the Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, the late Professor John Ruggie. The Human Rights Council unanimously endorsed the Guiding Principles in its resolution 17/4 of 16 June 2011. UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework The UNGPs Reporting Framework is the world’s first comprehensive guidance for companies to report on how they respect human rights, building on the work of the UNGPs. It supports businesses enterprises in taking action to implement the UNGPs. FIFA 2023 Women’s World Cup Human Rights Risk Assessment • 7