Huairou Commission’s Integrity and Values Framework
- A driving value of the Huairou Commission is building and promoting the voice of grassroots women, for grassroots women and by grassroots women. In Huairou Commission’s community, human rights and social justice encompass resilience, self-help and taking leadership of and ownership in the community work we undertake. Valuing diversity, multiculturalism, indigenous knowledge and the rights and roles of grassroots women is considered essential to achieving social justice, human rights for women, peace and security, and equality between women and men, we recognize different approaches and perspectives. We require all of us to share our culture with each other and acknowledge that people will make mistakes. We agree to take the time to learn about each other, share ourselves and learn from our mistakes. We accept our personal responsibility for our actions.
- At the Huairou Commission, our values reinforce what we care about and how we do things, not just what we do. The principles of respect, solidarity, transparency, accountability and compassion frame everything we do at the Huairou Commission.
- Huairou Commission is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. Huairou Commission expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct in upholding its integrity and reputation – treating all people with respect and dignity and challenge any form of harassment, discrimination, intimidation, exploitation or abuse and oppose criminal or unethical activities. The Huairou Commission applies the principle of balance of probabilities concerning breaches of the Code of Conduct, rather than requesting anyone alleged to breach the policy to prove their innocence.
- For each breach, the Huairou Commission will assess the risk of who and what are affected in order to determine disciplinary action.