The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) aims to establish a common understanding of the ways in which businesses can contribute through their activities to the realization of decent work and the role different actors can play in promoting responsible and sustainable business practices, including through human rights due diligence.

Human rights due diligence (HRDD) allows enterprises to uphold their responsibility to respect human rights as outlined in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration) and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct. It consists of a process by which companies can identify, prevent, and mitigate their actual and potential adverse impacts on human rights and account for how they address such impacts.

The MOOC “Human Rights Due Diligence and Decent Work” will highlight how principles of international labour standards relate to company operations, how those principles can be most effectively promoted and implemented, the role of governments and businesses, and how employers’ and workers’ organizations can guide and support such practices. It will also include a session on addressing specific decent work issues in economic sectors through a human rights due diligence processes, highlighting concrete examples, experiences and good practices.