Being BOLD in Difficult Times: Bulgarians Organizing for Liberal Democracy
In Bulgaria, as in much of Central and Eastern Europe, the last decade has seen a backsliding of liberal democracy.
COVID-19 and Civil Society: Can We Think Long-Term Amidst a Crisis?
In a so-called “normal” emergency, a cadre of aid workers hop on a plane and head off to “save” the…
For New Narratives, Human Rights Needs New Forms of Economic Power
If compelling human rights narratives are not grounded in sustainable, replicable and scalable projects, it will be hard to outweigh…
2020 Civic Space Trends in West Africa
The global trend of deteriorating civic space is especially visible in West Africa, where more than eighty-eight percent of the…
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…
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…
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…
Engaging SASB: Civil Society Call to Action
WEBINAR Thursday April 2, 2020 12:00 – 1:15 pm EDT The Sustainability Accounting Standards…
A Civil Society Call to Action: Strengthening SASB Together to Advance Human Rights
Part 4 of 4, Moving the Market to Support Human Rights In Parts Two and Three of this…
BlackRock and the Curious Case of the Poultry Farmer
Part 3 of 4, Moving the Market to Support Human Rights On 13 February 2020, in the little town of…
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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