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Principle 1 Principle 2 Principles for Responsible Banking continued Reporting and self-assessment requirements 07 Barclays PLC home.barclays/annualreport Principle 3 Principle 4 Principle 5 Principle 6 High-level summary of bank's response (limited assurance required for responses to highlighted items) Human rights Barclays operates in accordance with the International Bill of Human Rights and takes account of other internationally accepted human rights standards, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). We respect and promote human rights in our own operations through our employment policies and practices and our supply chain through screening and engagement. In 2021, we have initiated a strategic exercise to identify the salient human rights risks associated with our client financing portfolio. Over time, this will enable us to focus our client due diligence efforts and disclosures on the issues that pose the greatest risk to people. We intend to provide more information on this assessment and our plan for enhancing our approach to identification and management of salient human rights risks in future reports. We are working to embed human rights considerations into our position statements and related due diligence approach for clients operating in sectors with elevated environmental and social impacts. For example, we include specific questions around respect for Indigenous Peoples' rights, health and safety and provision of security into our due diligence questionnaires for clients in energy subsectors such as fracking and oil sands which are covered under our Climate Change Statement. In 2021, we established a tailored due diligence questionnaire for clients covered by our Forestry and Agricultural Commodities Statement. In recognition of the potential impacts that the production of commodities such as timber products or palm oil may have on Indigenous Peoples, through this questionnaire we will assess each client's approach to consulting with these groups. We will evaluate whether their approach is consistent with the principles of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) in order to gain assurance that the client will respect the rights of Indigenous People potentially impacted by its operations. Outside of our established sector statements we are working to proactively monitor for events and developments globally that may present new human rights risks and work to investigate our potential exposure to these. For example, this year we identified renewable energy supply chains and the surveillance technology sector as two areas that are increasingly linked with human rights risks such as forced labour. In response, we initiated a portfolio review of our exposure to companies involved in these sectors in a region with heightened exposure to these risks. We subsequently conducted due diligence on identified clients and are engaging with a selection of prioritised clients to further assess their risk management approach and evaluate whether they are taking appropriate steps to address these risks. For more information, see the 'Managing impacts in lending and financing' section in the Barclays PLC Annual Report 2021 and Barclays' Group Statements on Human Rights and Modern Slavery on our ESG resource hub. References Links to bank's full response/ relevant information PRB Reporting and self-assessment 2021
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