The issue of human trafficking in supply chains 2012, para. 26

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Paragraph text: The business responsibility to respect human rights requires that businesses not only avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through their own activities, but also seek to prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts that are directly linked to their operations, products or services by their business relationships, even if they have not contributed to those impacts (principle 13). To meet this responsibility, businesses are encouraged to have in place appropriate policies and processes, including a policy commitment to respect human rights, a human rights due-diligence process and processes to enable the remediation of any adverse human rights impacts that they cause or to which they contribute (principle 15). The Guiding Principles acknowledge that, where the adverse human rights impact is directly linked to the business operations, products or services by its business relationship with another entity, it is more complex to delineate the content of the responsibility to respect human rights, and what constitutes appropriate action may vary according to the enterprise's leverage over the entity concerned, how crucial the relationship is to the enterprise, the severity of the abuse and whether terminating the relationship with the entity itself would have adverse human rights consequences (principle 19).

Body: Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children

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Person(s) affected