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USA – Trade
Section I: Responsible Business Conduct and Due Diligence… “Prohibitions against federal contractors and sub-contractors engaging in trafficking in persons or using forced or indentured child labor; preferential purchasing for sustainable environmental practices in new contracts; export controls; and trade laws and regulations are all tools the USG uses to promote RBC and incentivize due diligence…
USA – Sustainable development
The US NAP does not address this issue.
USA – Supply chains
Section I: Responsible Business Conduct and Due Diligence… The U.S. Government Expectation for Businesses on Human Rights Due Diligence “The USG expects businesses to conduct HRDD throughout their value chains in line with internationally recognized standards set out in the UNGPs and the OECD Guidelines as well as in the International Labor Organization’s (ILO’s) Tripartite…
USA – State owned enterprises/public private partnerships
Section III: Additional National Action Plan Commitments… Table 1: Expanding Engagement and Coordination on Responsible Business Conduct Commitments “Through the Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will promote increased alignment of industry operations and governance mechanisms to the OECD Guidance and local governance expectations; amplify insights from…
USA – SMEs
Section I: Responsible Business Conduct and Due Diligence… The U.S. Government Expectations for Businesses on Human Rights Due Diligence[…] “The USG expects all businesses to conduct HRDD regardless of their size, sector, operational context, ownership, or structure. Nevertheless, the scale and complexity of the means through which businesses meet their responsibility to respect human rights…
USA – Security sector
Section III: Additional National Action Plan Commitments… Table 1: Expanding Engagement and Coordination on Responsible Business Conduct Commitments The Department of State will “leverage its Chairship (Chair through May 2025) of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Initiative (VPI) to make meaningful governance reforms and expand membership of the Initiative to include other…
USA – Public procurement
Section II: Priority Areas of the National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct… “2. Priority Area (2) Strengthening Respect for Human Rights in Federal Procurement Policies and Processes: […] Through this NAP, the USG commits to strengthen implementation of the existing regulations that prohibit human trafficking, trafficking-related activity, and forced or indentured child labor. To…
USA – Persons with disabilities
The US NAP does not address this issue.
USA – OECD National Contact Points (NCPs)
Section II: Priority Areas of the National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct… • State: State will enable stakeholders to seek resolution of RBC issues by strengthening the U.S. National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD Guidelines through increased stakeholder engagement, including creating a new advisory body; proposing changes to the NCP’s confidentiality policy and…
USA – Non-judicial grievance mechanisms
Section II: Priority Areas of the National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct… Section III: Additional National Action Plan Commitments… Table 3: Access to Remedy Commitments (See NCP elements in the OECD National Contact Points (NCPs) breakdown) The Department of the Treasury will “advocate for an effective remedy system at multilateral banks, including IFC and…
USA – Non-financial reporting
Section III: Additional National Action Plan Commitments… Table 1: Expanding Engagement and Coordination on Responsible Business Conduct Commitments The Department of State will “evaluate and assess the impact of potential approaches to implementing RBC Reporting Requirements, which would build on previous models of public reporting related to HRDD and RBCrelated issues. The United States and…
USA – NHRIs / Ombudspersons
The US NAP does not address this issue.
USA – Migrant workers
Section I: Responsible Business Conduct and Due Diligence… The U.S. Government Expectations for Businesses on Human Rights Due Diligence “[…] the USG expects businesses to account for populations that face disproportionate impacts of business activity in conducting HRDD. Best practice dictates developing policies to protect HRDs and taking steps to prevent reprisals against defenders. Throughout…
USA – Judicial remedy
Section III: Additional National Action Plan Commitments … Table 5: Workers’ Rights Commitments “CBP and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Center for Countering Human Trafficking’s newly established Forced Labor Investigations Unit, will improve information sharing with the aim to increase the number of WROs and Findings as well as criminal investigations into allegations of forced…
USA – Investment treaties and ISDS
The US NAP does not explicitly address this issue.
USA – Indigenous Peoples
Section I: Responsible Business Conduct and Due Diligence… The U.S. Government Expectations for Businesses on Human Rights Due Diligence “[…] the USG expects businesses to account for populations that face disproportionate impacts of business activity in conducting HRDD. Best practice dictates developing policies to protect HRDs and taking steps to prevent reprisals against defenders. Throughout…