The instability and fear that the COVID-19 pandemic brings about is exacerbating human rights concerns around the world. While businesses face an unprecedented level of challenges amidst the ongoing pandemic, expectations are rising quickly for greater respect for human rights in business operations. How businesses respond to the crisis now will shape public attitudes for years to come.

To build forward better, it’s important now more than ever for businesses to ensure that human rights are at the core of recovery efforts. Putting people at the center sheds light on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people on the ground, particularly the most vulnerable among us and what can be done about it now and in the long term.

In light of this, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka, through its project on ‘Business and Human Rights in Asia’ with support from the European Union, is continuing to help businesses consider and manage the human rights impacts of their operations in-line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights - a set of guidelines for States and businesses to protect, respect and remedy human rights violations.

http://www.colombopage.com/archive_20B/Dec11_1607659701CH.php