Determining the content of corporate reporting on human rights

Business enterprises have to report their activities to stakeholders in order to provide corporate transparency. Non-financial corporate reports provide a comprehensive coverage of environmental, socioeconomic, labor, health, and human rights issues. In the paper the author argues that a uniform def...

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Main Author: Čertanec Ana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, Belgrade, Serbia 2021-01-01
Series:Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu
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Online Access:https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0003-2565/2021/0003-25652104813Q.pdf
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description Business enterprises have to report their activities to stakeholders in order to provide corporate transparency. Non-financial corporate reports provide a comprehensive coverage of environmental, socioeconomic, labor, health, and human rights issues. In the paper the author argues that a uniform definition of a sector-specific human rights issue in reporting frameworks, rather than self-identification by enterprises of salient human rights issues, would help to achieve standardization and thus the possibility of sanctions in the event of false or misleading reporting. The author analyzes existing international and regional non-financial reporting instruments regarding the human rights included in it. The main content issues of non-financial reporting are derived and given requirements to improve them. The author further analyzes whether the two main frameworks for human rights reporting (the GRI Standards and the UNGPs Reporting Framework) currently meet the requirements for content defined in the paper and, if not, how they can be changed.
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spelling doaj-art-c0bfca5e335547f9b7e04c02ef56203a2025-08-20T03:16:43ZengUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, Belgrade, SerbiaAnali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu0003-25652406-26932021-01-0169481384210.51204/Anali_PFBU_21406A0003-25652104813QDetermining the content of corporate reporting on human rightsČertanec Ana0University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, Academic Unit for Management and Organization, Ljubljana, SloveniaBusiness enterprises have to report their activities to stakeholders in order to provide corporate transparency. Non-financial corporate reports provide a comprehensive coverage of environmental, socioeconomic, labor, health, and human rights issues. In the paper the author argues that a uniform definition of a sector-specific human rights issue in reporting frameworks, rather than self-identification by enterprises of salient human rights issues, would help to achieve standardization and thus the possibility of sanctions in the event of false or misleading reporting. The author analyzes existing international and regional non-financial reporting instruments regarding the human rights included in it. The main content issues of non-financial reporting are derived and given requirements to improve them. The author further analyzes whether the two main frameworks for human rights reporting (the GRI Standards and the UNGPs Reporting Framework) currently meet the requirements for content defined in the paper and, if not, how they can be changed.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0003-2565/2021/0003-25652104813Q.pdfnon-financial corporate reportinghuman rightsreporting requirementsun guiding principles reporting frameworkgri standards
spellingShingle Čertanec Ana
Determining the content of corporate reporting on human rights
Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu
non-financial corporate reporting
human rights
reporting requirements
un guiding principles reporting framework
gri standards
title Determining the content of corporate reporting on human rights
title_full Determining the content of corporate reporting on human rights
title_fullStr Determining the content of corporate reporting on human rights
title_full_unstemmed Determining the content of corporate reporting on human rights
title_short Determining the content of corporate reporting on human rights
title_sort determining the content of corporate reporting on human rights
topic non-financial corporate reporting
human rights
reporting requirements
un guiding principles reporting framework
gri standards
url https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0003-2565/2021/0003-25652104813Q.pdf
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