Study on human rights and the duty to be vigilant in recent global framework agreements

The purpose of this study is to analyse the content of the most recent global framework agreements with regard to their human rights dimension and the duty of vigilance of international companies, as defined by international standards and the French law on due diligence. It is based on 16 global framework agreements signed or renewed between 2017 and 2019. It shows that global framework agreements have the same scope for applying vigilance measures and are therefore useful tools for deploying these measures: dissemination and communication, identification of operational risks, monitoring, alert and reporting. And by their very nature as instruments negotiated with the trade union organisations, they are a tool for associating the stakeholders in the vigilance procedures.