UN FORUM SERIES – creating industry-specific standards to operationalize the “responsibility to respect”

This post was contributed by Adam Smith-Anthony, senior Associate and co-lead of the Business & Human Rights team at This post was contributed by Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, research director at NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. Any measurement of progress requires a baseline – determining whether the dial has moved can only be assessed if we know where it was before. Measuring progress over time also requires collecting comparable data by employing the same set of indicators at each measurement.