Integrating the findings and addressing
adverse human rights impacts
This phase within the human rights due diligence
Once your business has identified and assessed
procedures and processes to ensure that risks
its human rights impacts, the findings will need
to be integrated into the business’ practices and
processes, and appropriate action taken to ensure
potential impacts are addressed and actual
adverse human rights impacts are prevented.116
In cases where actual adverse human rights have
occurred, a business will need to be involved in
remediation processes117 (discussed below).
process requires businesses to examine internal
are addressed and, where impacts do occur,
they can be addressed appropriately. Integration
relates to the process of ‘taking the findings
about a potential impact, identifying who in the
enterprise needs to be involved in addressing it
and securing effective action’.120 What constitutes
an appropriate response depends on the
relationship to the harm. Your business may
cause or contribute to adverse human rights
impacts through your businesses’ own activities.
Integrating the
Findings of a Risk
Assessment: Hilton
Hotels and Resorts
Your business may also be ‘directly linked’ to
human rights risks or impacts through business
relationships, such as your business’ supply
chains.121
In 2019, Hilton Hotels and Resorts
(Hilton) conducted an in-depth risk
assessment related to the South
Asia to Qatar migration corridor.118
The assessment involved in-person
interviews with recruitment agencies,
candidates and operating hotels in
Qatar. The risk assessment identified
industry risks around recruitment
fees. As a result, Hilton developed a
new list of preferred labour suppliers
which is reviewed on an annual
basis.119
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