Liberia- 1st- Corporate law and corporate governance

CHAPTER THREE: POLICY ACTIONS
3.1. Land and Natural Resources

To address the human rights concerns related to land and natural resources, the government of Liberia intends to do the following:

a) The State’s Duty to Protect the right to land and natural resources.

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v. Improve robust legislative oversights as well as its social contract side of effective pro people representation. All multimillion-dollar contracts particularly in the areas of land purchase or lease for mineral and forest resource extraction, as well as for purposes of agricultural plantation formation, shall take a “bottom-to-top” approach, wherein the local inhabitants of counties, districts, and communities, shall be meaningfully consulted.

3.2. Labor Rights

The following policy actions shall be undertaken to address labor-related abuses and violations.

a) State’s Duty to Protect Labor Rights.

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iii. Companies and other places of business shall conspicuously display hard copies of the Decent Work Act in areas for easy access by workers. 

b) Corporate responsibility to Respect Labour Rights.

i. Produce a clear, simple, and understandable human rights policy within their value chain that reflects their commitment to promoting human rights in their operations. This policy shall guide all operations of the business and shall be conspicuously displayed either on the website, gate, or reception area of the company and must have a braille version for those with visual impairments.

3.3. Access to Remedy

Access to remedy within the context of the NAPBHR is aligned with Liberia National Development Plan.

The following include the policy actions that the Government of Liberia intends to undertake:

a) Duty to Protect

i. Improve human rights protection in business through legislation, policy initiatives and programs.

iii. Enforce and review existing laws or enact new legislation that requires businesses to respect human rights in their operations.

b) Corporate Responsibility to Respect

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iii. Capacity building is critical in ensuring corporate responsibility to respect human rights. Businesses shall build the capacity of their staff to carry out human rights due diligence and implement their human rights policy which is critical in ensuring corporate responsibility to respect human rights. The NWGBHR – a coordinating body that will be created by the government to effectively implement the NAP (for 32 details, see 4.7 a) – shall be available to provide the requisite expertise where necessary.

iv. Companies and other places of business shall visibly display the Decent Work Act in areas for easy access by workers.

v. Every company shall have a clear, simple, understandable, and handy human rights policy within its value chain that reflects its commitment to promoting human rights in its operations. vi. In the policy, the rights of staff shall be made clear as relates to respect for human rights. Staff shall also be trained in various aspects of human rights especially as it pertains to company operations. It is expected that the policy shall allocate roles and responsibilities and state the department(s) in the company that has responsibility for human rights issues. This shall apply to all companies irrespective of size, scope of operations, or type of business.