Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World
IHRB, Institute for Human Rights and Business
In this ongoing series, activists, business executives, government officials, lawyers, academics, and other experts from around the world share topical and curr...
Could a Fair Work Agency help enforce worker rights in the UK?
The organisations and government bodies responsible for enforcement of labour rights in the UK are fragmented - as they are in many countries around the world. Could proposals to create a single labour enforcement body - a Fair Work Agency - help improve business compliance with labour laws?
In this episode, Neill Wilkins (Head of IHRB’s Migrant Workers Programme) delves into UK labour regulation with Joanne Young, CEO of the Association of Labour Providers (ALP).
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40 years later: what are the lessons from the Bhopal gas disaster?
40 years since the Bhopal gas disasters, which killed thousands and injured millions more, what have been the lessons for corporate accountability? IHRB’s Salil Tripathi speaks to survivor, Tahira Sultan, as well as Dr Usha Ramanathan, a human rights and legal scholar who has studied and worked on the Bhopal case extensively.
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Just Energy Transition Partnerships, or JETPs - what are they and why do they matter?
What is a JETP and why is it so important to the just transition agenda? And what can we learn from South Africa’s JETP progress?
IHRB’s Haley St Dennis talks to Yuri Ramkissoon from South Africa’s Presidential Climate Commission, who is deeply involved in South Africa’s JETP. Together, they unpack the JETP and explores how this form of climate finance is supporting a just and equitable transition to a low-carbon economy.
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Real-world examples of just transitions - what can we learn?
What can we learn from real-world examples of transitions as they play out in countries at the centre of climate action, such as Brazil – home to the Amazon rainforest and host of COP30 in 2025?
In this episode IHRB’s Haley St Dennis is joined by Brazilian journalist Leonardo Sakamoto to discuss the human rights impacts of the Brazil's climate action.
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Turning soft law into hard law - what are the implications of the EU CSDDD?
Heidi is the former Vice President of the European Parliament and has also recently joined IHRB's International Advisory Council.
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