The composition of the ”Corporate and Human Rights Plan” is going the wrong way. The text, supposed to determine the modalities for the government to monitor Spanish businesses’ practices in a third country and prevent breaches of workers’ rights and the environment, is being robbed of its effective content and become a general recommendation framework. This is the reproach made by several organizations and associations involved in CSR, consulted when it was developed, including Oxfam Intermón, the Spanish federation of engineers without borders, active ecologists, the Coordination for the rights of indigenous people, the Spanish refugee assistance committee, Economists without borders, as well as the CSR observatory and a dozen other groups.
Spain: NGOs worried about composition of draft plan to supervise corporate social responsibility in Spanish businesses abroad
While the “Corporate and Human Rights Plan” is being prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, some NGOs consulted during its formulation are worried about the text’s structure. They point out that their observations are barely taken into consideration and that, in practice, the Plan will be ineffective, even though it is designed to monitor the good CSR practices of Spanish businesses abroad.
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