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How will we ensure that our communications do not pose a risk to individuals inside
or outside the enterprise?
How might we solicit feedback on our public communication to test how it is viewed
and see whether there are ways to improve it?
C. REMEDIATION
GUIDING PRINCIPLE 22
Where business enterprises identify that they have caused or contributed to adverse
impacts, they should provide for or cooperate in their remediation through legitimate
processes.
Q 62. Why does this matter?
An enterprise cannot, by definition, meet its responsibility to respect human
rights if it causes or contributes to an adverse human rights impact and then
fails to enable its remediation.
Having systems in place to enable the remediation of such impact in no way
implies that the enterprise does not intend to respect human rights. On the
contrary, it demonstrates a recognition that impact may occur despite its best
efforts, and intent to ensure that respect for human rights is restored as swiftly
and effectively as possible should this happen.
Q 63. Does this apply even if the allegations are unfounded?
No. This Guiding Principle is limited to situations where the enterprise itself
recognizes that it has caused or contributed to an adverse human rights impact.
It is in these situations that the enterprise is necessarily expected to enable the
remediation of that impact. It may find that it has caused or contributed to
adverse impact through its own impact assessments, grievance mechanism or
other internal processes, or the impact may be brought to its attention by other
sources and confirmed by its own investigations.
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