China’s White Paper and the BRI: Can We Expect China to Deliver on the SDGs?
This blogpost first appeared on Business & Human Rights Resource Centre on 11 March 2021. In its…
Building Sustainable Revenue in Community-Based Organizations: Case Studies From Legal Empowerment Organizations
This article first appeared on OpenGlobalRights on 15 March 2021. In our first…
A Silver Lining: COVID-19 Is an Opportunity for Civil Society to Explore New and Innovative Funding Forms
When COVID-19 hit NORSAAC, an NGO working in Ghana, lost over 185,000 Cedis ($32,173 USD) from…
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…
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…
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 Training Workshop
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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…
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…
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…
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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