Getting Human Rights Right
Corporations that violate human rights not only inflict suffering, but also hurt their bottom line. The authors suggest five principles that corporations can follow to improve their human rights footprint.
Human Rights - Articles
Innovative policies and programs that advance the rights of individuals and communities (more)
Podcast
Fazle H. Abed - Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Fazle Abed explains in this audio lecture how the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) is leading grassroots efforts to achieve the eight U.N. Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh. He describes a multipronged strategy aimed at education, gender equality, health, environmental, economic, and political progress.
Podcast
Alice Tepper Marlin - Setting the Standard for the Global Economy
Social Accountability International President Alice Tepper Marlin has been leading the push to create a credible, comprehensive, and efficient verification system for assuring humane workplaces around the world. In this audio lecture, she describes the strategies the Social Accountability International's SA-8000 standard has used to get global supply chain stakeholders operating on the same page when it comes to providing employees with safe, equitable, and financially beneficial working conditions.
Podcast
Dechen Tsering - Human Rights and Sex Trafficking
One of the greatest human rights abuses is sex trafficking. Millions of women and girls each year are tricked, trapped, bought, sold, and forced into service in sex industries. In this audio lecture, Dechen Tsering explores the causes of trafficking and the techniques used by traffickers. She advocates a holistic approach to stop this grave violation against women and describes the work Global Fund for Women undertakes in Southeast Asia and around the world toward this end.
Faith in Fair Trade
How Lutherans are transforming their love of coffee into global good.
Guess Who’s Socially Irresponsible?
Nonprofits aren’t as nice to their employees as you might think.
Making It to McDonald’s
How Fair Trade coffee moved out of its niche and into the most mainstream market of all.
Rolls-Royce Radicals
Responsible Wealth, a Boston-based nonprofit, is convincing many affluent Americans to challenge the very rules that made them rich.
Diversity Training Doesn’t Work
How can companies hire and promote more women and minorities?