Only organizations accredited by GNI are eligible to conduct assessments of member companies. Accredited assessors must meet GNI’s publicly available independence and competency criteria. To apply, please send a letter of interest to GNI Executive Director Jason Pielemeier via [email protected], detailing your organization’s interest and demonstrating how you meet the above criteria, as well as the CV’s of particular individuals within your organization that would be involved in assessments.
Current accredited assessors
Anthesis is a B Corp and a global leader in sustainability and human rights advisory. It comprises 1,000+ people, with over 40 offices across 20+ countries, including New York, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brazil, Australia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. Anthesis consists of several business practices including human rights, compliance and business integrity. Their Human Rights practice completes dozens of human rights impact assessments and due diligence assignments annually, helping social media companies, telecommunications operators and equipment manufacturers develop and implement their policies and commitments.
AWO is a law firm and consultancy that empowers individuals and organisations to uphold data rights, comply with the law and effect change in data protection and digital policy. They have lawyers, policy experts, technology analysts and applied ethicists working remotely and out of offices in London (HQ), Brussels and Paris. Their team has provided advice on appropriate due diligence and risk management processes to prevent negative impacts on the right to privacy and freedom of expression to companies such as Brave, Mozilla, Bumble and a wide range of start-ups, foundations, governments and NGOs. They also have experience in large scale data protection impact assessments, human rights impact assessments and algorithmic impact assessments of complicated systems for both the private and public sector.
Deloitte is a global provider of a wide range of professional services. Our global network of sustainability auditors and advisers ensures that we combine international experience with local knowledge to deliver valuable insights to our clients; this includes advising on human rights due diligence and assessing compliance with international principles for human rights. Our GNI assessments are delivered by teams with industry, country and subject matter specialists, incl. technology and legal. Deloitte has approximately 450,000 professionals worldwide, delivering services in audit and assurance, risk management, tax, consulting, and financial advisory.
Foley Hoag LLP is an international law firm that launched the world’s first Global Business and Human Rights practice. The firm has a comprehensive understanding of the human rights challenges facing the ICT sector. It currently advises leading technology companies, including platforms, cloud providers, and social media companies on human rights and legal compliance issues and has developed a human rights guide for early-stage technology companies in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Members of Foley Hoag’s assessment team are also members of the firm’s Privacy and Data Security Practice Group, which is a market leader in developing privacy, safety, and security standards for users and providers of IT services and in helping companies respond to information security incidents.is a law firm with a Global Social and Human Rights practice that has developed a comprehensive understanding of the human rights challenges facing the ICT sector. The firm currently advises several leading Internet firms on human rights and legal compliance issues and has developed a human rights guide for early-stage technology companies in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Members of Foley Hoag’s assessment team are also members of the firm’s Privacy and Data Security Practice Group, which is a market leader in developing privacy, safety, and security standards for users and providers of IT services and in helping companies respond to information security incidents.
Holistic AI is an AI Governance platform with a mission to empower enterprises to adopt and scale AI with confidence. Based in Palo Alto and London, they are a multidisciplinary team of AI and machine learning engineers, data scientists, ethicists, business psychologists, and legal and policy experts. Their clients and partners include Fortune 500 corporations, SMEs, governments, and regulators. Their independent audits solution under the Digital Services Act (DSA) also benchmarks, maps and assesses a covered entity’s fulfilment of their due diligence obligations with international human rights frameworks. Holistic AI was recommended by Wikimedia.
iTrust 6A™ has a humanistic purpose is to make the world a safer place. With over 40 years of experience in senior roles working in the telecommunications sector and law enforcement, they are experts in handling demands for access to and disclosure of communications data to law enforcement and government. iTrust 6A™ is their pioneering solution that standardizes and simplifies complex decision-making when handling demands for disclosure of data to law enforcement agencies and governments. They provide professional services through guidance and independent assessments of compliance with human rights, privacy, lawful interception, retention, preservation and production of data laws and regulations. Among their clients are Communication Service Providers, Online Service Providers, Multinationals, Platform Providers, and any organization that receives demands from law enforcement and governments to taken down, access or disclose data. iTrust 6A™ is committed to acting with integrity and being a trustworthy partner.
Moores Rowland (MRI) is a highly respected provider of a full range of financial services with offices in Jakarta and Bali, Indonesia. MRI is mindful of its social responsibilities, utilizing its audit, accounting, tax and legal expertise on projects in the international donor, development agency, and NGO services sectors. Promoting ethical and sustainable business practices, MRI has extensive experience in conducting assurance activities on sustainability reports of major companies, as well as focused human rights audits and impact assessments in Indonesia and elsewhere in Asia. A pioneer in human rights assessment practice, MRI has partnered with such human rights luminaries as Marzuki Darusman and Makarim Wibisono to further advance its award-winning human rights indicators, and supports the work of the Foundation for International Human Rights Reporting Standards (FIHRRST). A member of Praxity AISBL, the world’s largest alliance of independent audit, consultancy and certification companies, MRI shares the same high level of moral and professional standards as its fellow global practitioners.
Osborne Clarke is an international law firm with offices across Asia, Europe, and North America. We combine legal expertise with sector understanding and insight into the transformational trends impacting businesses today and tomorrow. Within the firm, the Technology, Media and Communications sector (encompassing telecommunications) is one of our largest and most well-established sectors, with teams experienced in supporting clients from large multi-nationals to emerging and innovative businesses. We have considerable expertise advising on digital rights, freedom of expression and privacy in this sector, especially in relation to the approach taken by Law Enforcements Authorities to request access to data and the need to balance this against the fundamental freedoms of expression and privacy. We also have considerable experience assessing client compliance systems and advising clients on compliance matters, policies, procedures, and systems to establish and maintain a strong compliance structure and culture.
Tech Legality is a consultancy firm specializing in human rights, children’s rights and digital technologies. We are a women-led, feminist consultancy firm, led by two human rights lawyers, and we work with a roster of human rights and technology experts from around the world. We work on law, policy, and governance for UN agencies and international organizations; and we provide human rights due diligence and risk assessment services to technology companies. With one foot in Africa, and one foot in Europe, as well as extensive experience living and working in many regions of the world, at Tech Legality we have deep expertise in reconciling competing rights across different contexts. We work on some of the most contentious issues in this field, such as reconciling rights to freedom of expression and access to information, with rights to protection from violence and exploitation online; analyzing the legal and ethical boundaries of end-to-end encryption, age assurance tools, and scanning technologies; and navigating conflicts between national law and international human rights law, including in the case of direct requests to companies from Governments. We empower clients by translating intricate human rights and digital technology issues into practical and effective solutions, while giving primary consideration to the relevant context and centering vulnerable populations.
Threefold Sustainability is a business and human rights and sustainability consultancy founded and led by Annette Fergusson and Milka Pietikäinen, two senior executives with over 30 years of combined practical experience leading, creating and implementing human rights and sustainability programs within large technology companies operating globally, including in challenging human rights contexts. Threefold Sustainability supports organizations to define their overall sustainability / ESG approach and strategy; provides advice at challenging and critical moments; and delivers a suite of services relating to business and human rights. We also work with non-profit and multilateral organizations, supporting their private sector engagement. Digital human rights is Threefold’s core area of expertise, stemming from extensive experience of implementing the GNI principles in-house and providing consultancy and assessment services addressing a broad spectrum of issues from privacy and freedom of expression to child online protection.
Venable LLP (“Venable”) is an AM Law 100 full service law firm founded in 1900, consisting of over 1500 personnel and headquartered in Washington, D.C. Within Venable, the Venable Human Rights Assessment Group consists of a multidimensional team with combined experience of over 100 years and extensive expertise in human rights, government, assessments, and analysis. The group works with global organizations to evaluate and build human rights programs, assess the impact their products and services have or may have on human rights, and establish responsible corporate frameworks that enable accountable governance. The Venable Human Rights Assessment Group is a full-service, white-glove consultancy, offering senior leaders solutions for the data privacy, safety, security, actionable intel, and human rights challenges their organization is facing. We are unique among professional services providers, integrating the resources and expertise of an established law firm with the acumen and agility of technologists, policy experts, product experts, and human rights practitioners. Venable takes a multifaceted approach to helping companies fulfill human rights obligations and endeavors, fostering trust with policy makers, NGOs, and the public.
Yever is a sustainability consultancy operating in Myanmar. Their past work with clients include ensuring operations in Myanmar were consistent with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights requirements: including with a consortium of development financial institutions invested in a Myanmar telecom tower company to conduct enhanced human rights due diligence. They have worked with TMH, a local telecom service company and ISP listed on the Yangon Stock Exchange, to produce their annual report. Yever partners regularly with different stakeholders to conduct ambitious projects, for example, with the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business to publish the Pwint Thit Sa Report, a report that analyses in-depth the practices of Myanmar companies in terms of transparency including Myanmar tech companies.
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