Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
Leading with Equity: How Companies Can Promote Social Justice through DEI
L. Simone Washington, BSR's Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), shares four takeaways for companies on shaping a more inclusive world where all people have fair access to opportunities and activities to improve their lives.
Technology | Human Rights
The Human Rights Impacts of Workplace Monitoring Technology
As the use of tools designed to monitor workers accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, employers need to consider the human rights impacts that may arise from workplace monitoring tools when implementing such technologies in the workplace.
Supply Chain | Human Rights
What Business Can Expect from China’s 14th Five-Year Plan
As China finalizes its 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), what are the macro themes for the sustainability world to watch, and how will they impact business?
Technology | Human Rights
Beyond Former User @realdonaldtrump: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Content Governance
How should a company’s responsibility to respect human rights according to the UNGPs manifest itself in the context of content governance? BSR shares its four-part approach to human rights and content governance.
Sustainability Management | Supply Chain
Three Ways to Improve Supply Chain Sustainability in the Decisive Decade
For companies, it is a business imperative to have a more transparent, resilient, responsible, and sustainable global supply chain model. Here are three steps for improving supply chain sustainability.
Women’s Empowerment
Working Together to End Gender-Based Violence at the Generation Equality Forum
BSR, the B Team, and Women Win/Win-Win Strategies are working together to engage the private sector towards making meaningful commitments to promote gender equality at the Generation Equality Forum. We connected with the Kering Foundation to hear more about its role as a GEF Action Coalition Lead and what motivated it to take part in the Forum.
Human Rights
How Business Should Respond to the Coup in Myanmar
Drawing on the UNGPs, UN guidance for business in conflict situations, and BSR’s own experience working with businesses in Myanmar and advising companies on human rights due diligence in high-risk contexts, here are seven practical steps that businesses with a presence in Myanmar can take.
Women’s Empowerment | Human Rights
Accelerating Progress for Gender Equality through the Generation Equality Forum
BSR is partnering with the B Team and Women Win/Win-Win Strategies to engage the private sector—mobilizing both companies with established women’s empowerment programs and those looking to get involved in the movement—toward making meaningful commitments to promote gender equality through the Generation Equality Forum.
Inside BSR
Inside BSR: Q&A with Francesca Manta
Originally from Italy and currently leading BSR's Copenhagen office, Francesca Manta’s childhood passion for justice and equity now fuels her work on business and human rights. .
Financial Services | ESG
Larry Fink Adds His Voice to the Call for Business Transformation
Companies and their leaders need to articulate ambitious transformation plans to navigate and participate in the push from “shareholder capitalism,” past “ESG shareholder capitalism,” and toward a just, sustainable, and thriving world.
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
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.
Women’s Empowerment
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.