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…
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…
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…
Fight Finance with Finance
If you have a retirement account, pension, or even certain insurance policies, you have the power to…
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…
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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