The HRCA country screening is available to full access subscribers and is designed to assist companies in building their own tailored checklists based on country risk. The main purpose of the country screening is to encourage and enable companies to consider the state of human rights within their country of operation, and to identify areas of human rights that will require greater due diligence. Updated every two years, the country screening gathers information on the current human rights situation in 203 countries, from a variety of public sources, including non-governmental organizations and public sector organizations. The following sources have been used in our 2014 update: - Understanding Children’s Work (UCW)- Country Statistics on Child Labour
- United Nations Development Program (UNDP)- Human Development Report
- U.S. State Department-Trafficking in Persons Report
- U.S. State Department - Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
- World Justice Project (WJP)- The Rule of Law Index
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)- Global Hunger Index
- International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Annual Survey of Violation of Trade Union Rights
- The Political Terror Scale (PTS)
- Freedom House’s Global Press Ranking
- ILO-Travail Database
- World Economic Forum-The Global Competitiveness Index
- World Economic Forum (WEF)- The Global Gender Gap Index
- International Property Rights Index
- Worldwide Governance Indicators report
- Transparency Internationals annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)
- The Human Rights and Business Country Guide
The criteria for selecting these public sources have been influenced by whether each data source can provide an extensive cross-country comparability and substantiated quantitative and qualitative data. A conservative approach has been favored in our ranking of countries based on the gathered statistical data and information. The country screening should be not perceived as a database in its own right or as an in extensive overview of country specific human rights risks. Instead, the tool has been designed to assist HRCA users build their own checklist according to their country of operation, by highlighting the possibility of country specific human rights risks, based on a basic review of publically available information. Users are encouraged to visit the specific database source of the country rankings, if more information regarding methodology of such sources is required. | | 
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