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Pillar 1: The State Duty to Protect Human Rights Strand 1: Training in the Field of Business and Human Rights Action Point 1.3 (pages 30-31) The Ministry of Labour will: Train businesses (guilds, confederations, associations and SMEs), unions and civil servants on business and human rights, emphasising labour rights. Strand 3: Inclusion and Non-Discrimination Action…

2017-2020 NATIONAL ACTION PLAN Pillar I: The state’s duty to protect human rights 1. Employment and Occupation Equality [page 9] Ensuring equal treatment with respect to, among other things, undertaking and pursuing an economic or professional activity is governed by the Act on the Implementation of Certain Regulations of the European Union Regarding Equal Treatment….

The Belgian NAP does not contain a direct reference to ICT & electronics sector.

I- The State’s Obligation to Protect Human Rights Examples of Responsible Practices Abroad [page 36] Switzerland The Swiss Federal Council has introduced a major amendment to its export licensing legislation in order to ensure surveillance technologies that might be used for human rights abuses are not exported from Switzerland. Following this amendment, Swiss authorities must…

2017-2020 NATIONAL ACTION PLAN Pillar I: The state’s duty to protect human rights 5. Planned changes in national legislation Rules governing the liability of Internet intermediaries for hate speech and violation of freedom of speech [page 26]: The Ministry of Digital Affairs plans to draft a regulation to counteract restrictions on the freedom of speech,…

Outcome 4.1: Recognize RBC Best Practices New Actions [page 22] “Modernize the Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE): For 17 years the ACE has recognized the best of U.S. business conduct abroad. Until recently, the ACE focused principally on corporate philanthropy rather than a company’s efforts to ensure that its core business is…

The UK 2016 Updated NAP also makes a reference to ICT in the section discussing Actions taken [page 9]: “To give effect to the UN Guiding Principles, the Government has: (…) strengthened international rules relating to digital surveillance, including leading work in the Wassenaar Arrangement to adopt new controls on specific technologies of concern. Specifically,…

2 National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights 2020-23 2.1 Pillar 1: state duty to protect   2.1.2 Operational principles: legislative and information policy measures Guiding Principles 1 to 3 Measure 1: Rules on the export of war material and technologies for internet surveillance The export or brokerage of technologies for internet and mobile…

Annex: Measures taken [page 22] The State as actor “Internet freedom and privacy are among the great global issues of the future. It is fundamental for Sweden that the human rights that apply offline also apply online. Sweden has taken initiatives to strengthen the dialogue with business on internet freedom. As a result of a…

The Norwegian NAP makes no explicit reference to ICT.

The Dutch NAP makes a very brief reference to the ICT and electronics sector. 3.3 Clarifying due diligence Raising companies’ awareness [page 22] “It is essential for companies to have access to all available information on due diligence. The European Commission has published human rights guidance for three business sectors: ICT companies, oil and gas…

Objective 2: promoting corporate responsibility and respect in the field of business and human rights A. Implemented and on-going measures for the development of CSR in Lithuania [page 6] 3. “The application of CRS principles to the state-owned enterprises … To this end, since 2010, actions were taken to restructure SOEs with a particular focus…

I. Guidelines and general principles “(…) the second Italian NAP-BHR intends to strengthen the application of the UNGPs through a series of complementary measures, referring in particular to the following guidelines: (…) – the need to study in depth innovative issues related to technological development and artificial intelligence – also in relation to the Declaration…

The German NAP makes no reference to ICT.

2 The state and companies 2.2 The State and the protection of privacy [page 23] “As a follow-up measure, the working group proposes that a roundtable discussion be organised on how to ensure the protection of privacy in Finland with the authorities, ICT companies and the civil society. Principal responsible party: Ministry of Transport and…

The Danish NAP makes no explicit reference to ICT.

Objective 1: ensuring State’s duty to protect, defend and respect human rights A. Legislative measures [page 1] 2. “Reforming legal regulation regarding administrative liability. The aim is to regulate individual administrative liability in the Republic of Lithuania, to separate it from criminal liability, ensuring the main features of the administrative liability: simple fast-track process, preference…

IV. Italian ongoing activities and future commitments Legality Rating “The legality rating is an indicator of compliance with high standards of legality by companies. It is a tool introduced into Italian law by Decree Law No. 29 of 24 March 2012 in order to promote principles of ethical behavior in the business environment through the…

III. Federal Government expectations regarding corporate due diligence in respecting human rights Reporting [page 9] “Enterprises should keep information at their disposal and communicate it, where appropriate, to external recipients in order to demonstrate that they are aware of the actual and potential impact of their corporate activity on human rights and are taking appropriate…