UN Forum series – “outside-in” and “inside-out” human rights measurement tools:how numbers can become the lingua franca of business and human rights

This post was contributed by Michael A. Santoro, Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School and Co-Editor of Business and Human Rights Journal. In July 2015, the Secretary-General of the United Nations transmitted a report to the General Assembly prepared by the Working Group on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. The Working Group’s report comprehensively lays out the importance of measurement to the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.