Human Rights

Human Rights Risk Atlas 2010

Maplecroft's Human Rights Risk Atlas 2010 is designed to help business, investors and international organisations assess, compare and mitigate human rights risk across all countries.

Country-by-country scorecards offer 30 easy-to-use indices that measure the human rights risks relating to human security, labour rights and protection, civil and political rights and access to remedy.

• Assessment of human rights risk for all countries
• Quantitative assessment of human rights risk at a national, sub-national and site level
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)-derived mapping techniques visually represent risk areas at the administrative and site levels, and include sector overlays
• Analyse, compare and chart human rights risk data for every country and download in Excel format
• Global risk analysis presented in searchable interactive maps enabling the extraction of site-specific human rights risk data
• Underlying research and data sets are available on request

Maplecroft's human rights risk products assess:

• Risk of complicity with human rights violations by state and non-state actors
• Risk of human rights infringements at all stages of the value chain
• Risk to the rights and security of employees, on-site contractors and local communities
• Risk to brand integrity and reputation
• Risk for key industries including agriculture, financial services, oil and extractives and manufacturing etc
• The effectiveness of state enforcement, remedy mechanisms and the role of business

More substantive analysis is available through Maplecroft's human rights country briefings and in depth reports, which are available on request with a 48 hour turnaround and can be tailored to a client’s needs to include sector analysis and maps.

Details of costings for the Human Rights Risk Atlas 2010 and associated products can be found online at the Maplecroft Store, once logged in. Alternatively request by emailing info@maplecroft.com