Recommendations for the Upcoming Portuguese National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights
On the 15th of May 2023, the NOVA BHRE launched the Report with Recommendations to the Portuguese Government for the Portuguese National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights as part of the ‘Policy Roundtable on the proposed EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive’ organised by the NOVA BHRE, the Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr, and Oxfam at the Centro Cultural de Belém. The Policy Roundtable featured interventions by Heidi Hautala, Vice-President of the European Parliament, Bärbel Kofler, Parliamentary Secretary of State of the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, Portuguese MEP from the S&D group, and Dominique Potier, Member of the French Parliament, as well as representatives from the private sector, civil society, academia and youth ambassadors.
The report on the Portuguese NAP on Business and Human Rights was prepared by a selected group of students of the ELSA association together with Claire Bright and Laura Iñigo Álvarez at the NOVA BHRE. The report aims to provide support to the Portuguese Government for the drafting of the Portuguese NAP on Business and Human Rights, by setting out concrete recommendations in relation both to its structure and to its substance. The methodology used relied on desk-based research and a comparative analysis of existing National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights as well as a study of relevant soft law instruments, standards, guidance, policies, and laws at the national, european, and international levels.
The main recommendations set out in the report are outlined in the executive summary prepared by Claire Bright and Sara Rentroia Pacheco with the support of IMVF – Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr in the context of the campaign #GoEAThical – #
The executive summary is available in English and in Portuguese and the full version of the report is available in English.
