Planning for Risk Mitigation: Assessing Human Rights in Strategy Development and Roll out
This short piece describes how Ericsson and Shift embarked on a distinct human rights assessment, looking at potential human rights impacts as the company planned for the roll out of their latest technology, 5G.
When human rights practitioners develop strategies to identify and prevent risk to people, they often feel like their hands are tied: the business is already operating in a certain way, in given markets with different levels of risk, selling a line of products that already exists and partnering with suppliers that have already been decided […]
