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8 Jun 2014

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Vodafone

Human rights – Our approach

We recognise that Vodafone has a responsibility to respect human rights, as articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and align our approach with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This responsibility is embodied in our Business Principles and our Code of Conduct...We worked with the sustainability organisation Business for Social Responsibility to conduct a gap analysis of our Group-level approach to human rights against the UN Guiding Principles. This identified the categories of human rights most relevant to Vodafone’s business as: labour rights; civil and political rights; rights of the child; economic, social and cultural rights; land and property acquisition; and the environment. Each of these categories is managed through well established policies and programmes, described in detail in the relevant sections of this report...In 2013/14, we further strengthened our human rights impact assessment process for potential new markets identified as high risk. The findings are considered in the decision-making process before entering a new market