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A New Paradigm for Global Civil Society: Introducing Rights CoLab’s “RINGO PROJECT”

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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,…

Social Businesses in Russia and Eastern Europe Making Strides Despite 2020 Turmoil

The social business ecosystem in Russia and Eastern Europe is surviving amid the global pandemic, political upheaval, and war, laying…

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…

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…

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…



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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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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…



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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…

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…

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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Our Team

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

Edwin Rekosh
Co-Founder
New York
Joanne Bauer
Co-Founder
New York
Paul Rissman
Co-Founder
New York
Nana Afadzinu
Advisor
Accra
Ohimai Amaize
Social Media Manager
New York
Alejandro Bautista
Contributor
Buenos Aires
Eleonora Davidyan
Program Officer
New York
Deborah Doane
Partner
London
Lamin Khadar
Contributor
Amsterdam
Jim Leitner
Advisor
New York
Tze-wei Ng
Contributor
Hong Kong
Nicolas Patrick
Advisor
London
Dimitrina Petrova
Contributor
Sofia
Enrique Piracés
Partner
New York
Mariana Riquelme
Program Officer
New York
Delilah Rothenberg
Contributor
New York
Shawn Shieh
Contributor
Guangzhou
Charles Kojo Vandyck
Contributor
Accra
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