Country Risk Portal

The Human Rights and Business Country Risk Portal (based at the Danish Institute for Human Rights) will create the first freely available website where companies can access country-specific information on human rights risks alongside tools and advice for managing those risks.

The aim of the portal is to enable companies world-wide to better understand and address their human rights impacts, to ensure that their business activities benefit all societal groups in their local business environments.

The Human Rights and Business Country Risk Portal will:

• provide free access to qualitative and quantitative risk information on business-relevant human rights issues across a large number of countries
• give targeted country-specific recommendations for addressing the identified risks in accordance with international best practice
• identify local development priorities and initiatives in relation to human rights to help companies engage in relevant social investments and partnerships

The Human Rights and Business Project has received seed funding, and is currently seeking additional donors and corporate partners (Spring 2010).