Business can create jobs and secure livelihoods, provide products and services, support community development and provide tax revenue for the state to invest in the well-being of its people.

Yet, without a sound commitment to human rights and implementation through due diligence, jobs can be precarious with poverty wages, indigenous peoples can be dispossessed of their ancestral lands and individuals can be subjected to modern day slavery, amongst a range of other potential impacts.

The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark provides a comparative snapshot year-on-year of the largest companies on the planet, looking at the policies, processes, and practices they have in place to systematise their human rights approach and how they respond to serious allegations. This is a public good for all stakeholders.

The ultimate aim of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark will be achieved incrementally by adding new industries and companies over time.

The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark is an initiative of the World Benchmarking Alliance. 

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated impacts around the world, the apparel, agricultural product, extractive and ICT manufacturing companies, which were assessed in previous iterations of the benchmark, were only assessed on a subset of the methodology in 2020, namely the CHRB core UNGP indicators. These are 13 non-industry specific indicators that focus on three key areas of the UNGPs: high-level commitments, human rights due diligence and access to remedy.

This metric compiles the company scores out of 26 points on the UNGP indicators.  

The data and methodology in this metric should be used accordance with the WBA's fair-use donation model and data licensing, under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International.