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Just Ground Joins Rights CoLab to Advance Rights Holder-Led Access to Remedy in Business and Human Rights

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Introducing the Freshwater Institute: A Hub for Civil Society Innovation in East Asia

At Rights CoLab we want activists to have the space and support they need to be resilient and…

Ukraine and RINGO: Can We Catalyse a More Solidaristic and Locally-Led Response in Ukraine?

By Deborah Doane, with contributions by Isabella Jean, Ignacio Saez and Dmitri Makarov Introduction The war in Ukraine has…

The Value of Social Capital in Resourcing Community Development in Africa

There is no doubt that the over-reliance on the global north for funding social change is the primary reason that…

You Can Support Innovative Solidarity for Ukraine

When Russia’s invasion began on 24 February 2022, Ukrainians started organizing to help each other. Dozens of chat groups and…

DùnDún Podcast [Season 2]: Consolidating Civil Society in a Post-Pandemic World

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, civic actors around the world have been faced with diverse challenges, from shrinking…

Mapping Civil Society Innovation to Advance Human Rights

The Business Case for Civil Society

Now more than ever, businesses have strong incentives to take seriously their responsibility to respect human rights. Human rights…



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How Can Open Source Evidence Help the ICC?

In this article, Jay Aronson and Enrique Piracés argue that the International Criminal Court needs to take advantage of…

Holding Big Tech to Account

I recently met up with an old friend and colleague who now works in AI. He casually said to me,…

Let’s Avoid an Artificial Intelligentsia

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in commercial, government, and corporate systems that provide services…

The Future of Human Rights Technology

Technology has been extraordinarily effective in reducing distances between people and places, but it has created an increasing distance…



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Bringing Teeth to Mandatory Business and Human Rights Rules: A Conversation with Rachel Chambers and Anil Yilmaz Vastardis

Over the past few years governments have started to step up with respect to their business and human rights obligations…

Strengthening New Investor Just Transition Tool Would Be a Gamechanger

This article is co-published with Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Investors are increasingly recognizing the potential…

How Can Investors Improve Social License? Listen to Human Rights Defenders

Despite all the interest in ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing— as well as growing recognition…

Social Audits Fall Short on Gender Equality

In September 2018, the SIPA Business and Human Rights Clinic at Columbia University set out to…

Business & Human Rights 2021 Training Workshop

July 16, 23 & 30   8:30 – 11:30 am EST/2:30 -5:30 pm CET REGISTER HERE An Institute for…

Seeing Business and Human Rights as a Web of Corporate Accountability

Business and human rights is not just about “doing well by doing good”, nor is it captured by the proposition…

Corporate Structure and Human Rights – a report from the Croatan Forum

“Why should the citizens of this world keep companies around whose sole purpose is the enrichment of a…



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Fighting Finance With Finance: Campaign to Hold Vanguard Accountable on Climate Investment Risk

With the clock ticking for meaningful climate action, we have to pull every lever possible to stop…

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: A Summary Report on Our Project to Strengthen SASB

Harnessing Big Data to Mobilize Investors on Human Rights: Looking Back, Looking Ahead at a Project to Strengthen SASB…

Making Rights Material

This article was originally published in the Business and Human Rights Journal (Cambridge University…

Strengthening New Investor Just Transition Tool Would Be a Gamechanger

This article is co-published with Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Investors are increasingly recognizing the potential…

Expert Group Comments on SASB’s Human Capital Management Preliminary Framework

In September 2019, the SASB Standards Board approved the Human Capital Management Project as its first standards updating project…

Harnessing Big Data for Investor-Led ESG Standards to Improve Corporate Human Rights Practice

A Rights CoLab Project This project engages with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) to develop and define…

CSO-Investor Dialogue Table

Investors and civil society professionals need to talk. Investors have become better attuned to the risks of human rights harms…



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We are a global team with diverse expertise working in open collaboration to co-create bold strategies to advance human rights.

Edwin Rekosh
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New York
Joanne Bauer
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New York
Paul Rissman
Co-Founder
New York
Nana Afadzinu
Advisor
Accra
Ohimai Amaize
Social Media Manager
New York
Alejandro Bautista
Contributor
Buenos Aires
Manuela Corredor Vasquez
Program Officer, Business and Finance
New York
Shauna Curphey
Contributor
Amsterdam
Eleonora Davidyan
Program Officer
New York
Deborah Doane
Partner
London
Lamin Khadar
Contributor
Amsterdam
Jim Leitner
Advisor
New York
Lindsey McCormack
Director of Development
New York
Katherine McDonnell
Contributor
Marseille
Tze-wei Ng
Contributor
Hong Kong
Nicolas Patrick
Advisor
London
Dimitrina Petrova
Contributor
Sofia
Enrique Piracés
Partner
New York
Shawn Shieh
Contributor
Taipei
Katie Trimm
Operations Coordinator
New Haven
Charles Kojo Vandyck
Contributor
Accra
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