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Gender Component of Internal Displacement in Ukraine: A Case of Business (In)Capability to Localize Human Rights Impact Assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2022

Ganna Khrystova  and
Olena Uvarova Open the ORCID record for Olena Uvarova [Opens in a new window]
Ganna Khrystova
Affiliation:
Doctor of Juridical Science, Senior Project Officer (the Council of Europe Project ‘Internal Displacement in Ukraine: Building Solution’)
Olena Uvarova*
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, PhD, Head of the International Business and Human Rights Lab (Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University), Kharkiv, Ukraine
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Human rights due diligence (HRDD) has become the buzzword of much of the advocacy and work today around business and human rights.1 It is almost commonplace that companies have the responsibility to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address these adverse human rights impacts as part of their ongoing HRDD processes, in line with the UNGPs.2 The assessment of human rights impacts (HRIA) is a critical step in this process.3

Keywords

business capacity to assess gender equality risksgender equalityinternal displacementlocalization of human rights due diligencewomen’s rights
Type
Developments in the Field
Information
Business and Human Rights Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Business and Human Rights in Latin America , October 2022 , pp. 500 - 507
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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