Facebook Sets New Corporate Human Rights Policy

It is following the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

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Facebook enacted a corporate human rights policy covering the entire company and introduced a fund to back human rights defenders facing critical threats and support new digital security efforts.

Director of human rights Miranda Sissons said in a Newsroom post late Tuesday that the company’s new policy sets out standards it will strive to respect as defined in international law, including the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as well as how those standards will apply to its applications, products, policies, programming and overall business approach.

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