Human rights

Respecting and protecting human rights across our businesses and value chain is an integral part of our Code of Conduct and respect for people in everything we do. We acknowledge that addressing human rights is our responsibility, but also a topic that requires collaborative action. Continuous dialogue with our stakeholders is an important part of this work.

Our approach

Respecting human rights across our businesses and value chain is an integral part of our Code of Conduct and respect to people on everything we do. We are committed to respecting and protecting human rights as defined in the United Nations’ Universal Declaration for Human Rights.

Salient human rights issues

We focus our efforts on identifying and managing our salient human rights issues and ensuring that the respect for these issues is embedded throughout our business. We report on our salient human rights issues and our efforts and challenges in respect.

Human rights due diligence

We assess our impacts on people and potential human rights risks through our human rights due diligence process. This is our way to ensure that that we mitigate risks, track the effectiveness of our actions, and communicate our efforts.

The summary of our human rights responsibility work gives an overview of human rights due diligence practises at UPM

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