Determining the content of corporate reporting on human rights

Čertanec, Ana (author)

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, socio-economic, 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.

• Language: English
• Keywords: corporations, management and control, human rights, business reports, non-financial corporate reporting, reporting requirements, UN guiding principles reporting framework, GRI standards
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 813-842
• Numbering: br. 4, God. 69
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134940
• UDC: 346
• ISSN on article: 0003-2565
• DOI: 10.51204/Anali_PFBU_21406A
• COBISS.SI-ID: 91385859
• Publication date in RUL: 11.02.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu
• Shortened title: An. Prav. fak. Beogr.
• Publisher: Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu
• ISSN: 0003-2565
• COBISS.SI-ID: 6016514

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