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Women’s Empowerment | Supply Chain
Empowering Women in Toy Factories: Insights from Our Pilot in India
BSR and the Ethical Toy Program collaborated on a women’s empowerment program that was piloted in three toy factories in India with a total population of 824 workers—including 198 women. From the pilots, we gained several insights into what it takes to develop successful programs to advance women in the workplace.
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Supply Chain
Supply Chain Visibility: Traceability, Transparency, and Mapping Explained
BSR experts explain three concepts for gaining and demonstrating visibility in multi-tier supply chains: traceability, mapping, and transparency. What are these concepts, how do they differ, and what do they offer?
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Sustainability Management
Business Roundtable Aims High, But Misses
In a very welcome—and long overdue—step, the Business Roundtable, America’s foremost CEO network, has recognized that a singular focus on shareholder value is the wrong “north star” for business leaders. However, its update falls short of what society and business truly need to thrive in the 21st century.
![How Aligning Sustainability and Risk Can Overcome Organizational Blind Spots thumnail image](https://www.bsr.org/images/thumbnails/2019-08-19-aligning-erm-sustainability-thumb.jpg)
Sustainability Management
How Aligning Sustainability and Risk Can Overcome Organizational Blind Spots
A new collaborative approach between sustainability functions and enterprise risk management can help to drive stronger, more sustainable strategies to make business more resilient for the changes to come.
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Women’s Empowerment | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
Can We Create a ‘Future of Work’ that Works for Women?
How can businesses navigate the broader changes taking place in the world of work in a way that accelerates women’s workplace participation? BSR sets out to answer this question in its latest report, How Business Can Build a ‘Future of Work’ that Works for Women, published today in partnership with Women Deliver.
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Supply Chain | Human Rights
Three Ways Business Is Combating Modern Slavery
The business community has a critical role to play in the fight against modern slavery, a practice that spans all business sectors and geographies. As we commemorate the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, GBCAT welcomes all companies to join us in our shared fight against modern slavery.
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Supply Chain
Blockchain through the Whole Supply Chain
The term “global supply chain” conjures up images of large ports filled with colorful arrays of ocean-bound shipping containers being systematically partitioned for each destination or commercial freight trucks arriving at highly-organized distribution centers. But global supply chains all start before that point—and our actions to make supply chains more visible, traceable, and sustainable need to start at the beginning.
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Human Rights
How Business Can Impact Human Rights: Four Lessons from Peacebuilding and Development
Jenny Vaughan joins BSR as the new Human Rights Director, bringing four key insights from over a decade of experience in international development and peacebuilding that can help business not just to respect human rights, but to fulfill these rights.
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Women’s Empowerment | Supply Chain | Human Rights | Consumer Products
Getting Circular Economy Right: Let’s Put People at the Center of Circular Fashion
BSR is working with the C&A Foundation to explore the ways in which advancing circular fashion affects people and in particular, women. Our research reveals that very few companies adopting circular fashion models are considering the social aspects as they make this shift.
![Mergers Are Coming: How to Manage ESG through the M&A Process thumnail image](https://www.bsr.org/images/thumbnails/2019-07-09-esg-mergers-acquisitions-thumb.jpg)
Sustainability Management
Mergers Are Coming: How to Manage ESG through the M&A Process
BSR has developed a primer, Managing ESG through a Merger, to help Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs), their teams, and internal allies navigate the M&A process to leverage and enhance ESG-related programs and priorities.
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Human Rights
Five Legal Trends Affecting Business and Human Rights
As countries’ concern for human rights changes, so will the legal landscape—as will the operating environment for business.
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Technology | Human Rights
Scaling Impact: Tech Against Trafficking Launches Accelerator Program
Tech Against Trafficking has launched an Accelerator Program, which aims to identify promising uses of technology in the anti-trafficking field and to harness the expertise and resources of member companies.
![Eliminating Violence and Harassment Just Became an Obligation for Businesses Worldwide thumnail image](https://www.bsr.org/images/thumbnails/2019-07-01-ilo-convention-blog-thumb.jpg)
Women’s Empowerment | Supply Chain | Human Rights | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
Eliminating Violence and Harassment Just Became an Obligation for Businesses Worldwide
The recent ILO Convention shows more is expected from businesses when it comes to tackling violence and harassment. Here’s how companies can take action using BSR’s “Act, Enable, Influence” framework.
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Human Rights
Human Rights Policy Engagement: The Role of Companies
It is increasingly important for business not only to maintain its commitments to respect human rights, but also to find new ways to support the work of governments for such efforts.