Human rights benchmarks: Corporate performance rankings on the rise
Who’s behind it? – White & Case (2020)
How can it help? – To many businesses, human rights and ESG benchmarks can seem onerous, overly confusing and thus highly tempting to ignore. Given the trend toward greater corporate transparency and the growing use of these benchmarks in assessing corporate performance, this brief by White & Case Â
- describes what benchmarks measure,
- explores the business case for understanding human rights and ESG benchmarks, and
- presents steps companies can follow to improve their benchmarking scores.