HGS Research: Human Rights Module

Easily identify potential human rights risks

Our platform provides you with risk ratings and tools for abstract risk analysis of your procurement portfolio and supply chain. This allows you to reliably achieve risk-based prioritization — with little effort, cost-effectively and based on well-documented data.

Abstract risk analysis: inexpensive and reliable

With just a few clicks, you can identify potential human rights risks in countries, industries, products and services.

With the help of tools, you can visualize your supply chains, even for upstream and downstream stages. Based on data, you can find starting points for risk-based prioritization as part of your human rights due diligence obligations.

For meaningful documentation, we provide you with a detailed description of methods for calculating risk ratings and all sources and indicators used.

A tool. Six powerful benefits.

Cost-effective

Our solution is tailored to your needs: functionally and cost-effectively.

Comprehensive

They find potential risks not only for countries but — this is unique — also for industries, products and services.

Easy to use

With just a few clicks, you can visualize abstract human rights risks not only for your direct delivery stage, but — this is also unique — for precursors in your supply chain.

Data-based

Our solution makes it easy for you to prioritize potential risks based on data and therefore justifiably.

Translucent

You can see which data and sources are included in the risk ratings and receive all information about the calculations for your documentation.

Innovative

You keep your data and analysis results with you! For your abstract risk analysis, you can - this is also unique - connect our data in your system environment with your procurement portfolio.

Human rights in figures

190+

Country ratings

Assessment of human rights risks worldwide

80+

Industries

Within our human rights-related ratings

6,000+

Product ratings

Human rights risks related to products and services

90 +

Indicators

Based on recognized data sources

10 fundamental rights are the subject of our evaluations

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Child labor
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Forced labor
03
Work safety
04
Freedom of association
05
Equal treatment
06
Payment
07
Environmental
08
Respect for property
09
Use of force
10
Corruption

Annual digital subscriptions

HGS Research offers three subscription options: Market Pricing module, Human Rights module, or both in a bundle (with price advantage). The number of users and range of functions can be flexibly adapted to your needs.

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Platform usage

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Platform usage

Export function
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Platform usage

Export function
Downloadable tool to support abstract risk analysis for your own procurement portfolio in your own system environment

We are also flexible when it comes to other subscription options: HGS Research is also interesting for small and medium-sized companies. We would be happy to provide you with an offer tailored to your needs.

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What our customers say

Read how our customers experience our solutions and how they benefit from them.

The Human Rights module helps us to fulfill human rights due diligence obligations in the supply chain. It enables a quick, clear and data-based risk analysis by country and sector, identifies risk-relevant materials and prioritizes suppliers on a risk-based basis. Resources are thus used in a targeted manner — without any cloud upload. You remain in control of your data.

Dr. Georg Schmalz
Head of Law, Dr. August Oetker KG

Why human rights risk analyses are important

Human rights are universal rights — such as freedom of speech, privacy, or an adequate standard of living. Countries around the world are required to protect them. But companies also have responsibilities.

Business and human rights are closely linked. Companies influence human rights — positively through fair jobs, negatively when faced with grievances in supply chains. The UN Global Compact formulates ten principles that commit to compliance with human rights — along the entire value chain.

A proactive approach to human rights protects companies from reputational, financial and legal risks — and strengthens their risk management.

Sustainability is becoming a competitive factor. Social and ecological standards are becoming increasingly important among investors, consumers and professionals. Transparent, methodically clean risk analyses strengthen the future viability of your company.

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