United Nations Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator 2026 – YOA

Deadline: December 19, 2025

Applications are open for the United Nations Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator 2026. The Business & Human Rights Accelerator is a six-month programme activating firms taking part within the UN Global Compact throughout industries and areas. The goal is to assist companies swiftly transfer from dedication to motion on human rights and labour rights by way of establishing an ongoing human rights due diligence course of.

In this program, you’ll be taught:

• How to establish your duties in respecting human rights and labour rights, expressed within the International Bill of Human Rights and the International Labour Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
• How to ascertain an ongoing human rights due diligence course of in step with worldwide requirements
• How to organize organizations for evolving human rights due diligence laws that’s aligned with worldwide requirements
• How to report and talk in your human rights due diligence outcomes, together with by way of the Communication on Progress, the annual public disclosure requirement for all UN Global Compact individuals
• How to attach human rights and the human rights due diligence course of with social sustainability initiatives

Benefits

• An understanding of the place your organization is on their human rights journey
• An evaluation of precise and potential hostile human rights impacts and the flexibility to prioritize motion
• The data about steps to take to mitigate your human rights impacts, together with grievance mechanisms and treatment
• Ways to successfully have interaction stakeholders on operational impacts on folks
• An motion plan to advance human rights in your organization and past
• A community of friends, UN companions and consultants to assist your human rights journey and work collectively to sort out persistent obstacles to human rights due diligence.
• A certificates demonstrating completion of programme

Eligibility

To take part within the Business & Human Rights Accelerator, firms are required to be individuals of the UN Global Compact or keen to affix. Your firm also needs to be:

• Currently engaged with a Global Compact Country Network in your area or keen to affix.
• Willing to establish its human rights dangers and impacts and scope a core space of your worth chain for additional focus.
• Committed to growing an Action Plan to assist tackle the human rights dangers recognized and prioritized.
• Able to nominate two working-stage representatives to attend classes and take part in Accelerator actions and an extra govt-stage consultant to comply with programme developments, present assist and take part in excessive-stage occasions.
• Commit to finishing the programme and embedding the learnings throughout the corporate technique and operations.

Application

The BHR Accelerator is run in collaboration with Global Compact Networks and is at the moment accessible in 47 nations. Once your registration request has been obtained, a consultant out of your Country Network might be in contact to substantiate your organization’s participation.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Business & Human Rights Accelerator.