This Way Up: Unpacking human rights for business is the first podcast from Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Over the course of each mini-series, we will...
World Benchmarking Alliance at UN Business and Human Rights Forum
More than 60% of companies assessed by the World Benchmarking Alliance are improving their human rights practices, but there’s still a long way to go. Live from #UNForumBHR, Namit Agarwal spells out what he believes companies and governments must do next.
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Effective implementation of a just transition - UN Business and Human Rights Forum
“We need more implementation to make sure that what’s already there can help us get somewhere.”
A positive perspective from Mutuso Dhliwayo, Executive Director at Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association on the huge difference that effective implementation of pre-existing regulations and frameworks could make towards a just transition.
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Putting workers at the centre of the just transition - live from UN Business and Human Rights Forum
“There is not a just transition if you don’t bring workers into the negotiations from the beginning.”
Live from #UNForumBHR 🎧, ITUC Co-Director Diana Junquera tells us why governments and companies must take responsibility and connect with workers in the just transition process.
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The role of investors and governments in the just transition - live from UN Business and Human Rights Forum
How should investors continue to press their portfolio companies to engage with just transition issues, and what role do governments have to play in a shifting and uncertain future environment?
Fascinating insight from Chavi Keeney Nana at the Interfaith Centre on Corporate Responsibility live from #UNForumBHR.
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Female workers in Bangladesh and the just transition - live from UN Business and Human Rights Forum
As female workers in Bangladesh are increasingly uprooted from traditional agricultural work to industrial jobs, worker involvement in how the just transition unfolds will be essential, as Sunzida Sultana from Karmojibi Nari tells us at #UNForumBHR.
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This Way Up: Unpacking human rights for business is the first podcast from Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Over the course of each mini-series, we will outline and interrogate the latest issues related to business and human rights, bringing together diverse expertise from front-line activists, civil society, companies, investors and academia. The aim? To figure out together which way is "up" - the actions we must take to ensure continually improving corporate respect for human rights.
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