Multi-stakeholder initiatives
Multi-stakeholder initiatives play an important role in raising business awareness and putting human rights due diligence into practice.
Industry associations and sector-specific initiatives can respond in very concrete ways to challenges inherent to a given sector. Businesses in the same sector often face similar difficulties, which can be difficult and/or costly to address alone. By joining such initiatives, businesses – particularly SMEs – can achieve more than they could alone.
The Confederation supports a number of initiatives in the following areas:
Global and sector-specific initiatives
- UN Global Compact
- Swiss Global Compact Network
- Centre for Sport & Human Rights
- Global Reporting Initiative
Commodities
Security
- The International Code of Conduct Association (ICoCA)
- Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
Agriculture
- Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa
- Better Cotton Initiative
- Global Coffee Platform
- Table ronde pour le soja responsable
- Swiss Sustainable Coffee Platform
Textile
Financial sector
Services
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About Pillar II: Corporate Responsibility
The second pillar of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) establishes the responsibility of companies to respect human rights through due diligence. The federal government supports companies in meeting this responsibility.
Practical tools for businesses
Guidelines, guides, brochures and practical tools to help companies understand and apply human rights due diligence.
Awareness-raising events
As part of the NAP, events are regularly organised to support businesses.
Contacts
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs
Labour Directorate
International Labour Affairs
Holzikofenweg 36
CH - 3003 Bern
State Secretariat FDFA
Peace and Human Rights Division
Human Rights Diplomacy Section
Effingerstrasse 27
CH - 3003 Bern