Copenhagen-based · Global outlook

Advancing human rights in a complex world.

We are an advisory firm dedicated to advancing human rights and responsible business conduct. Where many ESG strategies excel on environment, the social and governance pillars often remain underdeveloped. This is where we come in.

Cecilie Marie Conrad and Karina Viebke Pultz, founders of The Rights Advice
Photo: Mikkel Dahlgren Faurholt

Who We Are

A Copenhagen-based firm with a global outlook

The Rights Advice is an advisory firm specialising in human rights, governance, and social responsibility. We help businesses, public institutions and civil society organisations navigate new regulatory landscapes, respond to rising stakeholder expectations, and lead with integrity.

Drawing on the UN Guiding Principles and the emerging European legal framework, from the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) to CSRD, EU Taxonomy and the EU Forced Labour Regulation, we guide organisations to integrate human rights into core strategy, operations, and reporting.

Where many ESG strategies excel on environment, the social and governance pillars often remain underdeveloped. This is where we come in: translating complex international standards into concrete, applicable practice and measurable impact indicators.

We work with organisations that want to move beyond box-ticking, rooted in ethics, data and ambition, and lead with genuine integrity in a changing world.

What We Do

Our services

Targeted, high-quality advice across the full spectrum of rights-based sustainability.

AI Strategy

We integrate Data Ethics and Human Rights Standards at the core of AI strategy. As organisations adopt AI, we help ensure that systems are designed, deployed and governed in ways that respect fundamental rights and reflect genuine ethical ambition, not just compliance.

Compliance advisory

Ensure alignment with international frameworks and legal requirements: CSDDD, CSRD, EU Forced Labour Regulation, UNGPs, OECD Guidelines and more. We translate obligations into operational reality.

Human Rights Impact Assessments

Assess actual and potential human rights risks across operations and value chains. We develop governance frameworks for mitigation and accountability.

Social and Governance in ESG

Design policies and performance indicators that move beyond box-ticking. We build ESG frameworks rooted in ethics, data and ambition.

AI-powered risk & indicator development

Deploy data-driven models and rights-based metrics to build resilient, forward-looking strategies at the frontier of technology and human rights.

Training & capacity building

Engage leaders and employees through tailored workshops on business and human rights, practical, evidence-based and adapted to your sector and context.

Meet the partners

Karina Viebke Pultz
Photo: Mikkel Dahlgren Faurholt

Karina Viebke Pultz

Founder & Director

Karina Viebke Pultz motivates and helps companies and organisations to use human rights as a strategic strength. With many years of international experience in human rights work and leadership, she has a solid understanding of both the substance of rights and the realities in which companies and organizations operate or engage with business partners in their global value chain.

She supports companies and organisations to translate complex human rights standards into concrete, applicable practice and measurable impact indicators. She has solid experience in promoting human rights through advocacy in the UN system, the EU and with big tech, contributing to forming international norms in relation to tech.

Cecilie Marie Conrad
Photo: Mikkel Dahlgren Faurholt

Cecilie Marie Conrad

Partner

Cecilie brings extensive experience as a Business and Partnerships Manager in the international civil society sector. With an educational background in political science and human rights, she combines strategic insight with a deep understanding of the partnerships and stakeholder dynamics that drive meaningful change.

At The Rights Advice, Cecilie oversees client relationships and operational development, ensuring that advisory services are both rigorous in their grounding and effective in practice.

Photo: Mikkel Dahlgren Faurholt

Rights-centred. Evidence-based. Practical.

We bridge the gap between international human rights frameworks and the operational realities faced by organisations.

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    Grounded in international standardsOur work is anchored in the UN Guiding Principles, OECD Guidelines, CSDDD, CSRD, EU Forced Labour Regulation and other authoritative frameworks.
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    Actionable and sector-specificWe translate abstract obligations into concrete processes, policies and tools tailored to your context and value chain.
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    Stakeholder-inclusiveMeaningful engagement with affected rights-holders is central to credible human rights practice and due diligence.
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    Forward-looking on technologyFrom AI systems to digital infrastructure, we assess and address emerging human rights risks at the frontier of innovation.

Featured Insight

AI Governance & the Right to an Explanation

Automated decision-making systems increasingly affect access to services, employment and justice. This briefing examines the human rights obligations of organisations deploying AI at scale and what responsible governance looks like in practice.

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Whether you need advisory support, training, or a tailored resource, we welcome the conversation.

Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, advising globally
Services Advisory · HRIA · Training · Due Diligence · AI Strategy