Technology | Human Rights | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
To Combat Systemic Discrimination, Companies Need to Acknowledge Their Role
How can companies play a role in tackling systemic racism and discrimination?
Women’s Empowerment in the Era of Social Distancing
A new digital tool from HERproject aims to reach women workers in global value chains and build resilience to COVID-19 impacts.
Sustainability Management
Why Companies Should Assess Double Materiality
In the first part of our blog series on materiality, we discuss why companies should assess double materiality.
Sustainability Management
Double and Dynamic: How to Enhance the Value of Your Materiality Assessment
After 20 years of discussions and evolving perspectives on what materiality means, who is it for, or whether the sustainability field should even be using the term “materiality,” a consensus is emerging.
Companies Can’t Ignore the ‘She-cession’ Created by the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has fueled a recession for women. BSR recommends six actions for companies to incorporate a gender lens on recovery efforts.
Human Rights
Looking Ahead to the Next Decade of Business and Human Rights
As we look ahead to the next decade of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), we see the need to start focusing on six areas that will enable us to achieve the most meaningful progress toward the realization of human rights.
Technology | Sustainability Management | Supply Chain | Climate Change
China in 2021: Looking beyond COVID-19
BSR takes a look at four trends to watch in China’s manufacturing and supply chain environment in 2021, a year still shaped by COVID-19.
Supply Chain | Human Rights
Data and Tech Acceleration in COVID-19: The Human Rights Impact on Vulnerable Garment Workers
BSR examined the impacts of digital transformation on women garment workers in our new report, Digital Technology and Data in the Garment Supply Chain during COVID-19.
Inside BSR: Q&A with Margot Brent
In our new monthly "Inside BSR" series, we get to know members of the BSR team. This month, we feature Margot Brent, an Associate in our Hong Kong office, and learn about her work with the Sustainable Futures Lab.
Supply Chain | Human Rights
Six Steps to Prevent and Address Child Labor in the Palm Oil Industry
In collaboration with global buyers, BSR supported the development of agribusiness group Wilmar’s Child Protection Implementation Manual, which provides a guide for establishing and implementing policies related to safeguarding and protecting children from child labor and other forms of abuse in palm oil operations as well as remedial actions.
Sustainability Management | Human Rights | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice | Climate Change
2021: Optimism and Resolve for the Decisive Decade
It is time to turn ambition to action. In the year ahead, BSR will be focusing on three broad areas: (1) business transformation to meet ESG objectives; (2) decisive climate action to translate commitments into real change; and (3) creating an economy that is truly inclusive.
Sustainability Management | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice | Climate Change
Business and the Renewal of American Democracy
The horrific storming of the U.S. Capitol building this week is yet another “shocked but not surprised” event as Donald Trump’s presidency comes to an end. Historians will have much to assess from this tragic period but there are numerous lessons for business leaders to consider today.
Human Rights
Seven Questions to Determine a Company’s Connections to Human Rights Abuses
The actions that a company must take to prevent, mitigate, and remedy adverse human rights impacts—what the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) call “appropriate actions”—depend on the company’s connection to that impact. A new white paper provides seven questions to help companies determine their connection to negative impacts.
Human Rights
One Year On: A Human Rights Review of the Oversight Board
In 2019, BSR conducted an independent human rights review for Facebook to inform the creation of its Oversight Board. One year later, we are publishing a gap analysis on the Oversight Board and its progress.
Supply Chain | Human Rights
How Business Can Support Survivors of Human Trafficking
GBCAT is launching a new resource, A Guide for Business on Empowerment and Employment of Survivors of Human Trafficking, to inform companies on how they can support the long-term recovery of survivors of human trafficking.