We’re proud to reaffirm our commitment to human rights through our updated Global Human Rights Guidelines. This serves as the third iteration of our commitment to protecting human rights across our business, operations and supply chain since we published our first set of guidelines in 2015. These guidelines reflect how our founding principles of integrity, honesty, fairness, respect and reliability are reflected in our proactive approach to risk management and engagement on human rights topics with employees, suppliers, clients, panelists and others. We will also be providing optional internal training for associates to learn more about how protecting human rights is part of everyone’s job.
"A confiança e a responsabilidade estão no centro de quem somos como empresa", disse George Callard, Diretor Jurídico da Nielsen. "Temos o compromisso de respeitar os direitos humanos em tudo o que fazemos em nossos negócios, operações e cadeia de suprimentos, e esse respeito é fundamental para nossa capacidade de oferecer os melhores resultados para nossos clientes. Nosso compromisso se estende aos clientes que orgulhosamente atendemos, às comunidades em que vivemos e trabalhamos, aos nossos funcionários e à cadeia de suprimentos, bem como aos consumidores que compartilham suas informações conosco."
Envolvemos proativamente nossos stakeholders internos e externos para entender melhor suas opiniões e recomendações, a fim de incorporar um respeito informado pelos direitos humanos em todos os aspectos dos negócios da Nielsen. Nossa abordagem está alinhada com os padrões externos e as melhores práticas de várias maneiras específicas, incluindo o respeito ao indivíduo, o cuidado com nossas comunidades, o cultivo de um ambiente diversificado e inclusivo e a proteção de nossa meritocracia, entre outros.
All Nielsen leaders are responsible for ensuring that our practices demonstrate a commitment to human rights. Functional responsibility for managing, monitoring and tracking the potential human rights impacts and risks of our business and operations is managed across a variety of functions, including: Procurement, Operations, Corporate Audit, Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion, Global Responsibility & Sustainability, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Finance, and others. Each functional group contributes its own unique expertise and competencies to ensuring that relevant human rights risks are addressed or incorporated into existing policies or practices if and as needed. Our Integrity Leader program is one such functional group with responsibility in this area. This group is composed of regional Integrity Leaders and Integrity Ambassadors throughout the organization.
Human rights is also embedded in our overall approach to Risk Management through our Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework. This multi-channel collaboration allows us to take a more comprehensive and proactive approach to human rights risk management. ERM ensures that we are conducting ongoing, in-depth assessments through our existing due diligence processes, monitoring and reporting on these risks, taking appropriate actions when needed to address the risks, and integrating any relevant findings into our organizational processes and policies as needed.
Continuaremos a explorar novas maneiras de promover nosso compromisso com os direitos humanos em todo o mundo por meio desses e de outros esforços de engajamento das partes interessadas. Comprometemo-nos com o envolvimento contínuo e regular de nossos stakeholders internos e externos e com a incorporação de suas opiniões e recomendações em nossas políticas e práticas globais.
For more information about Nielsen’s approach to human rights-related risks and opportunities, please refer to our Nielsen Global Responsibility Report.
