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Women’s Empowerment | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
Bridging the Supply Chain Gender Gap through Digital Training
HERessentials, a tablet-based learning app for workers and managers, started as a response to the COVID-19 crisis, but it has the potential to build digital capabilities for all workers. We share three key recommendations for businesses considering how to set up digital training in supply chains.
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Human Rights | Financial Services
How the Financial Sector Can Help Accelerate Access to Remedy
Despite the best efforts of governments and businesses to protect and respect human rights, there is clearly still a need to ensure people harmed by economic activities are able to raise issues and have them addressed.
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Human Rights | Financial Services | ESG
Transforming Finance: Priorities for Progress in Advancing Respect for Human Rights
The time for human rights-respecting finance is now. Our new report elaborates on the call to action set out in the UNGPs 10+ Roadmap for Financial Institutions, highlighting key areas where progress is needed to tackle global challenges and contribute to new systems grounded in respect for human rights.
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Healthcare
Four Ways to Advance Mental Well-Being in the Workplace
What does an effective workforce mental health program look like? BSR’s Healthy Business Coalition, in partnership with One Mind at Work, identifies key aspects of such a program.
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Human Rights | Healthcare
Navigating Emerging Ethical Issues: Lessons from Bioethics, Tech, and Human Rights
A human rights-based approach provides a strong foundation for addressing ethical issues. Based on our work with healthcare and tech companies and expertise in applying human rights frameworks to businesses’ ethical challenges, we share insights on best practices for managing emerging ethical issues in a corporate context.
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Human Rights
Rapid Human Rights Due Diligence During Political and Armed Conflict: A Business Response to Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine raises significant questions for business and illuminates the impact that its actions can have during times of political and armed conflict. To help business respond, BSR has updated its rapid human rights due diligence tool to help with quick decision-making in this context.
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Inside BSR
BSR at 30: A New Strategy for Impact
As BSR celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, we see opportunities to achieve our mission like never before, in a world that is facing many urgent challenges.
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Technology | Human Rights
A Human Rights Assessment of Meta’s Expansion of End-to-End Encryption
Meta commissioned BSR to undertake a human rights assessment of extending end-to-end encryption across Meta’s messaging services. We share some of the assessment’s key points.
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Human Rights | Financial Services | ESG
Bridging the Human Rights Gap in ESG
ESG as a framework does not sufficiently capture harms to people or guide decisions that take human rights into account. How can the business and human rights framework help close gaps and increase opportunities in current ESG practice among financial actors?
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Human Rights
Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: Seven Recommendations for Business
The European Commission recently released its long-awaited Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence. We share seven practical recommendations for companies on how to prepare for the upcoming requirements.
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Women’s Empowerment | Food, Beverage, and Agriculture
Empowering Women Fruit Farmers with Digital Training
Responsible business is deepening its commitment to empowering women across the value chain. One such example is Fyffes and HERproject expanding the new digital program HERessentials across several Latin American countries.
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Inside BSR
Inside BSR: Q&A with Smita Nimilita
Inside BSR is our monthly series featuring BSR team members from around the world. This International Women’s Day, we connected with Smita Nimilita, a HERproject Country Representative based in Bangladesh.
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Women’s Empowerment
International Women’s Day: Business Trends and Opportunities
At the current pace, it will take another generation to achieve gender parity. As we mark International Women's Day 2022, we share three key areas that require urgent action from companies: addressing unpaid work and care, combating gender-based violence, and preparing for future jobs.
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Technology | Human Rights
Applying the UNGPs to Technology: Our Point of View
The UN Human Rights Council initiated an expert consultation on the practical application of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). BSR has published a submission drawing upon our experience of 100 human rights assessments with tech companies.
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Climate Change
Time’s Up: Urgent Climate Adaptation and Business Transformation Key to Secure a Livable Planet
IPCC’s recently released Sixth Assessment Report about climate impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability shines a light on the threat climate change poses to human well-being and planetary health.