17 BOX 2 Examples of business impact on human rights Examples of situations where business enterprises may be deemed to have caused adverse human rights impact: – Routine racial discrimination by a restaurant in its treatment of customers; – Exposure of factory workers to hazardous working conditions without adequate safety equipment; – Being the sole or main source of pollution in a community’s drinking water supply due to chemical effluents from production processes. Examples of enterprises being accused of contributing to adverse human rights impact: – Providing data about Internet service users to a Government that uses the data to trace and prosecute political dissidents contrary to human rights; – Performing construction and maintenance on a detention camp where inmates were allegedly subject to inhumane treatment; – Targeting high-sugar foods and drinks at children, with an impact on child obesity; – Changing product requirements for suppliers at the eleventh hour without adjusting production deadlines and prices, thus pushing suppliers to breach labour standards in order to deliver. Examples of adverse impact that is directly linked to an enterprise’s operations, products or services by its business relationships, but where the enterprise itself may not to have contributed to it: – Providing financial loans to an enterprise for business activities that, in breach of agreed standards, result in the eviction of communities; – Embroidery on a retail company’s clothing products being subcontracted by the supplier to child labourers in homes, counter to contractual obligations; – Use of scans by medical institutions to screen for female foetuses, facilitating their abortion in favour of boys. Human Rights Translated contains further examples of how business enterprises can be involved in adverse impact on human rights.