Paul Rissman Joins IFRS Sustainability Reference Group

November 15, 2024

Paul Rissman, Co-Founder of Rights CoLab, has been appointed as a member of the IFRS Sustainability Reference Group (SRG). The SRG plays a vital role in offering technical input to the ISSB’s members and staff, supporting their research and standard-setting initiatives.

Rights CoLab Signs Open Letter to G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group

February 1, 2024

We are proud to co-sign the World Benchmarking Alliance letter urging G20 finance ministers to align fiscal policy with the Just Transition.

Read the letter here.

Tipping Point Fund Support for Rights CoLab

December 20, 2023

We are thrilled to share that the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing is supporting our work to integrate human rights into investment standards. Read the press release. 

Global Commons Alliance Support for Rights CoLab

September 25, 2023

We are thrilled to share that the Accountability Accelerator, part of the Global Commons Alliance, is supporting our work to integrate human rights into investment standards. Read more about the Accelerator’s work. 

Joanne Bauer contributes to UNDP report on Just Transition

August 30, 2023

Joanne Bauer is a contributing author on a new report from the UN Development Programme, “From Fragmentation to Integration: Embedding Social Issues in Sustainable Finance.”

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Interview: What Matters for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?

June 22, 2023

We interviewed Paula Luff, DSC Meridian Capital, on the relation between DEI and company value.

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Series: Meet the Data Science Team

January 25, 2023

In this interview series, data science team members tell us about their experience working to automate research on the financial materiality of labor rights.

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Columbia University Data Science Institute Features Our Work

August 2, 2022

In July our work with the Data for Good Scholars of Columbia University’s Data Science Institute was featured on the Institute’s site. Access the article here.

Our data science code and keyword dictionaries now publicly available

June 3, 2022

Our team’s data science code and keyword dictionaries are publicly available on Github and can be accessed at this link.

Rights CoLab at Truvalue Labs’ Academic Roundtable

April 5, 2022

On  April 5, Truvalue Labs hosted an Academic Roundtable featuring the latest research on ESG trends and events. Raiha Khan and Isha Shah of Rights CoLab’s data team were invited to deliver a presentation on “Using Data Science to Surface Evidence for Better Integrating Human Rights into SASB Human Capital Standards.”

Click here to access the slides and recording.

October 2021 Newsletter

October 4, 2021

Our third newsletter features progress made by our data team in finding evidence to extend DEI metrics across a wider range of industries than the current SASB Standard. You can also find an interview with Joanne Bauer, Paul Rissman, and Tanika West, and ways to get involved.

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Value Reporting Foundation Interviews Rights CoLab for “Today in Market Feedback” Series

September 30, 2021

As part of VRF’s “Today in Market Feedback” blog, Greg Waters, Associate Director, interviewed Rights CoLab’s Joanne Bauer, Paul Rissman, and Tanika West about our engagement with VRF and the relationship we have developed over the last two years.

Read the full interview here.

Rights CoLab and Value Reporting Foundation Sign MOU

September 27, 2021

Rights CoLab is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Value Reporting Foundation in August 2021, formalizing our partnership as a research collaboration.

Read more about our MOU here.

Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking: The Podcast

July 2, 2021

Joanne Bauer features in episode 7 of the FAST Podcast, which focuses on the changing disclosure and due diligence landscape, the UK & Australian Modern Slavery Acts and possible impact of the proposed EU mandatory human rights due diligence framework, plus the development of new corporate benchmarks and standards on modern slavery and what they mean for financial sector actors.

Listen to episode 7 here.

June 2021 Newsletter

June 18, 2021

In our second newsletter, we share latest updates from our work to strengthen SASB’s ESG standards, with global labor experts, and our data science team. Learn about the impact we’ve made so far – and ways to get involved.

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Rights CoLab and Partners Call for Stronger Just Transition Indicator

March 11, 2021

Drawing on insights from the SASB Project,  Rights CoLab, together with Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), and Sierra Club Foundation, make the case for improvements to strengthen the  Climate Action 100+ draft Just Transition Indicator in a letter to the drafting committee.

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Expert Group letter to SASB covered by Responsible Investor

February 17, 2021

Responsible Investor reports on the public letter to SASB, drafted and facilitated by Rights CoLab and signed by Expert Group members’ institutions, expressing support for the broadened conception of the workforce in SASB’s Preliminary Framework on Human Capital, and recommending four priority standard setting projects across the SASB standards.

Read the article here.

January 2021 Newsletter

January 28, 2021

In our first newsletter, we share project updates from the first-ever civil society collaboration with SASB. Learn about our efforts to improve investor-backed disclosure standards with respect to labor rights and ways to get involved.

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Invitation for Labor Rights Experts to Participate in SASB’s Consultation

January 28, 2021

SASB has opened a stakeholder consultation for the Human Capital Management Preliminary Framework. Companies, investors, and subject matter experts working to support stronger labor standards are encouraged to provide feedback through a survey.

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SASB Issues Guidance on Preparing Human Capital Management Disclosures

December 8, 2020

SASB’s Human Capital Bulletin provides an overview of the human capital-related topics and metrics in SASB’s 77 industry-specific Standards to assist companies in preparing human capital-related disclosures as required by a recent amendment to Regulation S-K by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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“Modern Slavery: Investment Risks and Opportunities” Webinar

November 13, 2020

Joanne Bauer discusses the research collaboration with SASB at the FAST Expert Investment Seminar, “Modern Slavery: Investment Risks and Opportunities.” Click to watch the full webinar recording.

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Data Science Project to Expand Evidence on Labor-Related Human Rights Risks

October 1, 2020

In partnership with SASB, our data science project uses natural language processing, machine learning, and other data science techniques to identify new relationships between labor-related human rights risks and financial materiality.

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New Report: Evidence of Corporate Risk of Harms to Workers in Their Value Chains

September 30, 2020

Evidence from across a number of industries points to the negative impact labor abuses within a company’s supply chain can have on operations and profits. Alongside our data science project, Rights CoLab has been manually tracking this evidence across news sources, resulting in the compilation of this report.

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