Human rights -based approach as an action guide in the due diligence of companies

Abstract

The article presents the Human Rights-Based Approach as a methodology that places human rights as the principle, norm, and end of any public or private agent whose action may result in consequences that in different ways may violate or limit the protection or guarantee of rights. human rights. Companies have recently been called by the United Nations as especially relevant subjects to become protagonists in the protection of human rights, given the impunity with which they had acted on many occasions in the past, being subjected to due diligence duties in Terms like those required of States when rendering accounts through the procedures established in international human rights law.