"Respect and Remedy: Implementing corporate responsibility under the UN Framework on Business and Human Rights"

Although many companies have endorsed the UNGPs, in the years since they were published in 2012, very few have truly taken up the mantle of implementing them fully in spirit. Were more to do so, it would  be much clearer to the interested public how companies are assessing risk, and what they are doing to put management systems in place to mitigate and prevent human rights harms. The core recommendation of this paper is therefore that CNOOC, Total, and Tullow, in addition to other companies engaged in the sector, should publish detailed reports on how they are carrying out human rights due diligence and, in reasonable detail, where their core risks lie.