Opening Space: Can You Expand Civic Space During a Pandemic?
Since lockdown started in mid-March, it almost feels like everything that came BC — before COVID-19 — is no longer…
Sharing Lessons, in Solidarity, More Crucial Than Ever as COVID-19 Makes Acute Situations for ICSOs Worse
This blog was originally published in Disrupt & Innovate series of International Civil Society Centre. It…
DùnDún: Changing the World, One Podcast at a Time
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, people across the world are devising innovative approaches in immediate response to the…
COVID-19 Puts the Spotlight on the Relevance and Effectiveness of Civil Society
The novel coronavirus pandemic has transformed relations and interactions within communities and between citizens and institutions. As a result, certain…
A New Paradigm for Global Civil Society: Introducing Rights CoLab’s “RINGO PROJECT”
Why Are We Where We Are? Perhaps the alarm bells should have started ringing in the 1990s. At that time,…
Mapping Civil Society Innovation to Advance Human Rights
Welcome to our collaborative space! More and more groups are exploring opportunities to organize and resource human rights activities in…
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…
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…
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 Training Workshop
June 12, 19 & 26 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. EST REGISTER HERE An Institute…
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…
Has Their Time Come? A Tale of Two Corporate Responsibility Movements
Amid the many calls for corporations to become socially responsible, two 21st-century movements stand out as being particularly serious about…
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…
A Successful Season for SASB-Based Shareholder Resolutions
Timed to the 2020 Annual General Meeting (AGM) season, shareholder advocacy non-profit As You Sow filed…
It Is Time for a Taskforce on Inequality-Related Financial Disclosures
Decades of eroding job quality and financial engineering have not only impacted the lives of millions of people, but…
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 a strengthened…
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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