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Colombia – Gender and women’s rights
IV. POLICY DEFINITION (…) Human Rights Approach (…) Gender-sensitive approach: A human rights-based approach (HRBA) applied to gender issues reveals how human rights affect women and men differently and how power relations and gender discriminations affect the effective enjoyment of rights by human beings. It will also take into account the document “Gender Perspective of…
Colombia – Freedom of association
II. CHALLENGES (…) [The Plan] recognizes the need to: (i) continue working to prevent union violence and encourage the promotion of workers’ rights and, (ii) continue with the national government’s commitment to guarantee the protection of human rights and the process of articulation between institutions and unions to advance in the construction of scenarios that…
Colombia – Forced labour and modern slavery
`The Colombia NAP does not explicitly address this issue’
Colombia – Finance and banking sector
`The Colombia NAP does not explicitly address this issue’
Colombia – Extraterritorial jurisdiction
`The Colombia NAP does not explicitly address this issue’
Colombia – Extractives sector
VIII. FUNDAMENTAL PILLARS i. Fundamental Pillar 1: The State’s obligation to protect human rights (…) Strand 2 [Eje nº 2]: Encourage the creation of regulations and strategies that promote respect for human rights in the development of business activities. (…) The Ministry of Mines and Energy [Minminas] together with the National Hydrocarbons Agency, the National…
Colombia – Export credit
`The Colombia NAP does not explicitly address this issue’
Colombia – Equality & non-discrimination
VIII. FUNDAMENTAL PILLARS (…) i. Fundamental Pillar 1: The State’s obligation to protect human rights (…) Strand 4 [Eje nº 4]: Promoting inclusion and non-discrimination in business activity The Presidential Advisor’s Office for Human Rights and International Affairs will carry out accompaniment and advice sessions for employers on the importance of labour inclusion for the…
Colombia – Environment & climate change
I. CONTEXT Strategy “Commitment for the future of Colombia” [“Compromiso por el futuro de Colombia”] (…) Commitment with clean and sustainable growth: within the framework of the principle “produce conserving and conserve producing” [“producir conservando y conservar produciendo”] the roadmap in relation with sustainable growth is based in issues such as energy transition, combatting climate…
Colombia – Development finance institutions
`The Colombia NAP does not explicitly address this issue’
Colombia – Data protection & privacy
`The Colombia NAP does not explicitly address this issue’
Colombia – Corruption
`The Colombia NAP does not explicitly address this issue’
Colombia – Corporate law and corporate governance
`The Colombia NAP does not explicitly address this issue’
Colombia – Construction sector
`The Colombia NAP does not explicitly address this issue’
Colombia – Conflict-affected areas
II. CHALLENGES (…) Additionally, the participation of the business sector in the coordinated implementation of the stabilization policy will be an important challenge in order to consolidate the culture of legality in areas affected by poverty, the presence of illegal economies, institutional weakness and generalized violence. It is clear that the presence of the business…
Colombia – Children’s rights
IV. POLICY DEFINITION Focus on children and adolescents: According to the document Technical Guidelines of the Model for the Care of Children and Adolescents [Lineamiento Técnico del Modelo para la Atención de los Niños, las Niñas y Adolescentes]: “The rights of children and adolescents are human rights and specifically include the right to special care…
Kenya – Children’s Rights
CHAPTER TWO: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AND THEMATIC AREAS 2.2 Kenya’s Experience with Business and Human Rights Under the social pillar of the Vision 2030, Kenya aims to build a just and cohesive society with social equity in a clean and secure environment. The Key sectors under the social pillar namely: […] youth […] CHAPTER THREE:…
Kenya – Conflict
The Kenya NAP makes no reference to Conflict-affected areas
Belgium – Privitisation
The Belgian NAP does not explicitly address privatisation.