Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 16
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Regarding the obligations of States to protect against and redress the human rights impacts of business, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework were endorsed by the Human Rights Council in 2011. In the Guiding Principles, States are requested to set out clearly the expectation that all business enterprises domiciled in their territory and/or jurisdiction will respect human rights throughout their operations (principle 2). While the issue of trafficking in supply chains is not specifically addressed in the Guiding Principles, in accordance with principle 17 businesses should carry out due diligence in order to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address their adverse human rights impacts. Pursuant to that same principle, the due diligence should include assessing actual and potential human rights impacts, integrating and acting upon the findings, tracking responses, and communicating how impacts are addressed, and should cover not only impacts related to an enterprise’s own activities, but also those to which it may be linked through its business relationships.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children