National action plans on business and human rights
Setting up national strategies to ensure business respect children’s rights.
National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights (NAPs) are key policy documents where States develop their policy strategies to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) to uphold their obligations to protect human rights against adverse impacts by business and provide remedies to victims when abuses occur.
As such, it is critical that these documents reflect strategies that take into account the rights, experiences and views of children, to ensure that policy measures are effective to protect children’s rights from corporate abuses and to remove barriers for children to access remedies.
UNICEF advocates for the explicit integration of children’s rights in NAPs and works in partnership with Governments and civil society to provide guidance and support to ensure children’s voices are included and children’s rights are adequately reflected in each stage of the process and in the final document of the development of a NAP.
