Summary
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) are divided into three chapters, the third of which is devoted to access to remedy and which details the complementary roles of judicial and non-judicial mechanisms. Additionally, the final principle in the third pillar (UNGP 31) includes a set of effectiveness criteria, which provide a benchmark for designing, assessing, and revising non-judicial mechanisms to make sure they are effective in practice. Since 2014, OHCHR’s Accountability and Remedy Project (ARP) has produced guidance on how to implement the third pillar of the UNGPs on access to remedy. This note contains a simplified version of the ARP guidance on how private mechanisms can meet the UNGPs’ effectiveness criteria.