Munich Re has selected Verisk's global risk analytics business, Verisk Maplecroft, to help it enhance human rights due diligence across the entire enterprise. Using Verisk Maplecroft's world leading Human Rights Risk Indices, which identify exposure to 31 civil, political and labour rights risks at national and subnational levels in 198 countries, Munich Re will upscale its ability to undertake global operational risk assessments, alongside factoring the data into its underwriting and investment decisions. Verisk Maplecroft has been measuring and analysing human rights risks for over 15 years.

Its Human Rights Dataset is the only structured set of analytics covering the full range of rights the world over and is recognised as the benchmark for excellence in assessing these risks. The data has long been used by multinationals managing human rights risks in their operations and supply chains, and by asset managers and banks assessing and addressing their human rights risk exposure across complex global investment and lending portfolios. Adoption by insurers is the next step.