This National Baseline Assessment of Business and Human Rights is the product of collaboration among the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), and the Danish Institute for Human Rights to evaluate the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) in Ghana. The UNGPs is a non-binding business and human rights regime endorsed the unanimously by the UN Human Rights Council on 16 June 2011 with the aim to advance the prevention and redress of human rights abuses amongst businesses.
Anchored on the “Protect, Respect and Remedy” framework of the UNGPs, this National Baseline Assessment of Business and Human Rights evaluates the Government of Ghana’s progress in achieving its obligations to respect, protect and fulfil human rights and fundamental freedoms, the compliance level of businesses in respecting applicable laws and upholding human rights in the performance of their business functions, and the existence of appropriate and effective judicial and non- judicial remedies accessible to victims when their human-rights and obligations are breached.