Human Rights | Technology
Is Stakeholder Engagement the Key to Successful Community Standards?
Ongoing debates about leadership, governance, and regulation of social media are highly relevant to any stakeholder engagement discussion for platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
Human Rights
Human Rights, Access to Remedy, and Stakeholder Engagement
It is clear that there is still a significant gap between companies responding to allegations of harming human rights and actually engaging with the affected rightsholders to ensure that appropriate remedy is provided.
Human Rights | Women’s Empowerment
#DontBanEquality: CEOs Step Up to Say Abortion Bans are Bad for Business
While it may seem safer for companies to stay silent on abortion legislation, many companies have concluded that they need to speak out to stay consistent on their commitments to gender equality and support for women’s health.
Collaboration | Human Rights
New Collaborative Initiative to Advance LGBTI Equality Globally
BSR is pleased to announce our latest Collaborative Initiative, the Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality (PGLE), a collaboration between the World Economic Forum, OHCHR, and BSR.
Human Rights | Women’s Empowerment
Time’s Up: Women Should Be Front and Center of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence
The UNGP report "Gender Dimensions of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights" has the primary objective of putting an end to gender-blind human rights due diligence and access to remedy. This report reinforces BSR’s position that places gender equality at the heart of its initiatives, programs, and tools.
Sustainability Management
Exploring Employee Activism: Why This Stakeholder Group Can No Longer Be Ignored
For companies used to thinking about stakeholder engagement as an external-facing exercise, the strength and speed of staff unrest has been a surprise. Companies in all sectors need to start regarding employees as their most significant interest group.
Healthcare
What Do the Next 20 Years Hold for the Healthcare Industry?
BSR's Healthcare Working Group, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2019, is a forum of experts and peers, working together to share the challenges of today, anticipate the trends of tomorrow, discuss best practices, and co-create solutions.
Financial Services | Sustainability Management
A Five-Step Approach to Engaging Investors on Sustainability
Companies that are not engaging investors on sustainability are missing an opportunity to attract and retain investors focused on long-term value and ESG.
Supply Chain
How to Drive Value through Supply Chain Sustainability
As supply chain sustainability—also known as responsible sourcing, sustainable sourcing, responsible supply, or sustainable procurement—continues to evolve, companies must also stay abreast of its trends if they hope to build or maintain a competitive edge.
Human Rights | Technology
Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: We Need to Talk about the Use Phase
Undertaking due diligence of artificial intelligence (AI) across all industries now is a matter of urgency and not something that can be put off into a distant future.
Financial Services
Progress and Opportunities for Responsible Investing in Japan
At the RI Asia Japan conference in April 2019, three unique, Japan-focused dynamics stood out. These dynamics point to keys for adapting and applying global sustainable investment themes within Japan and ways the rest of the world can learn from Japan’s rapid uptake.
Supply Chain | Women’s Empowerment
Making Supply Chains Safe for Women Workers
When it comes to tackling harassment and abuse, compliance programs alone are inadequate. They need to be rethought with the worker at the center, and they should measure and bolster the programs put in place to address root causes and build real change.
Human Rights
How Companies Should Respond to the Vedanta Ruling
Following the UK Supreme Court's recent decision in Vedanta v. Lungowe, we believe it is in the best interest of companies to double down on working with subsidiaries to ensure they properly understand and adequately manage environmental and social risk.
Sustainability Management
Why 2019 Is the Year of Stakeholder Trust
In 2019, the question of how to build and retain stakeholder trust—among investors, regulators, customers, suppliers, civil society organizations, and the general public—is the most pressing challenge facing business.