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[PDF] Human Rights Impact Assessments - Discussion Paper
...a number of organizations are experimenting with separate and distinct human rights impact assessments (HRIAs) for private sector projects. It is too early to offer a definitive evaluation because to date only the summary of one such assessment has ever been made public (for BP’s Tangguh project in Indonesia) – although other companies have commissioned private studies...The intended distinction between HRIAs and ESIAs [Environmental & Social Impact Assessments] is that the former would use international human rights standards...as their framework, and assess the state of realization of a broad spectrum of rights rather than only those obviously impacted by the proposed business activity...