
Securing Local Funding For Rights In China – Podcast Interview
One way that authoritarian governments limit civic engagement and human rights activism is to block funding for it. In 2016,…
One way that authoritarian governments limit civic engagement and human rights activism is to block funding for it. In 2016,…
The social business ecosystem in Russia and Eastern Europe is surviving amid the global pandemic, political upheaval, and war, laying…
Since lockdown started in mid-March, it almost feels like everything that came BC — before COVID-19 — is no longer…
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, people across the world are devising innovative approaches in immediate response to the…
Why Are We Where We Are? Perhaps the alarm bells should have started ringing in the 1990s. At that time,…
Welcome to our collaborative space! More and more groups are exploring opportunities to organize and resource human rights activities in…
Now more than ever, businesses have strong incentives to take seriously their responsibility to respect human rights. Human rights…
In this article, Jay Aronson and Enrique Piracés argue that the International Criminal Court needs to take advantage of…
I recently met up with an old friend and colleague who now works in AI. He casually said to me,…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in commercial, government, and corporate systems that provide services…
Technology has been extraordinarily effective in reducing distances between people and places, but it has created an increasing distance…
Despite all the interest in ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing— as well as growing recognition…
In September 2018, the SIPA Business and Human Rights Clinic at Columbia University set out to…
June 12, 19 & 26 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. EST REGISTER HERE An Institute…
Business and human rights is not just about “doing well by doing good”, nor is it captured by the proposition…
“Why should the citizens of this world keep companies around whose sole purpose is the enrichment of a…
Amid the many calls for corporations to become socially responsible, two 21st-century movements stand out as being particularly serious about…
In September 2019, the SASB Standards Board approved the Human Capital Management Project as its first standards updating project…
Despite all the interest in ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing— as well as growing recognition…
Timed to the 2020 Annual General Meeting (AGM) season, shareholder advocacy non-profit As You Sow filed…
Decades of eroding job quality and financial engineering have not only impacted the lives of millions of people, but…
A Rights CoLab Project This project engages with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) to develop and define…
Investors and civil society professionals need to talk. Investors have become better attuned to the risks of human rights harms…