Investment
Michael Goldhaber
REPORT: Making ESG Real: A Return to ...

Our latest report, “Making ESG Real: A Return to Values-Driven Investing,” explains the historical wrong turn taken by ESG investors, and proposes ways to re-prioritize the protection of the environment and society.

REPORT: Making ESG Real: A Return to Values-Driven Investing
Technology
Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat
REPORT: Reality Check: How to Protect Human ...

Our latest report, “Reality Check: How to Protect Human Rights in the 3D Immersive Web,” explains the risks to privacy and safety exacerbated by immersive technologies and recommends steps tech companies and the government can take to minimize those risks.

REPORT: Reality Check: How to Protect Human Rights in the 3D Immersive Web
Technology
Paul M. Barrett and Justin Hendrix
REPORT: Safeguarding AI: Addressing the Risks ...

Our latest report, Safeguarding AI: Addressing the Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence, identifies he risks related to generative AI and recommends steps tech companies and the government can take to minimize those risks.

REPORT: Safeguarding AI: Addressing the Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat
REPORT: Gaming the System: How Extremists ...

Our latest report, Gaming The System: How Extremists Exploit Gaming Sites And What Can Be Done To Counter Them, describes how extremist actors are exploiting online gaming sites to disseminate violent ideologies, network with like-minded people, and perpetrate real-world harm. The report recommends concrete steps the gaming and gaming-adjacent industries should take to counter such exploitation and avoid serious harm to users and society.

REPORT: Gaming the System: How Extremists Exploit Gaming Sites And What Can Be Done About It
Manufacturing
Natasja Sheriff Wells & Chana Rosenthal
REPORT: A BROKEN PARTNERSHIP: HOW CLOTHING ...

Our latest report on global supply chains and manufacturing coincides with the tenth anniversary of the tragic Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in 2013. In the decade since Rana Plaza, garment factory safety in Bangladesh has improved. But global apparel brands and retailers continue to put exploitative economic pressure on factory owners.

REPORT: A BROKEN PARTNERSHIP: HOW CLOTHING BRANDS EXPLOIT SUPPLIERS AND HARM WORKERS – AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT

Shared Responsibility

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Shared Responsibility: A New Paradigm for Supply Chains

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Shared Responsibility: A New Paradigm for Supply Chains

In the spirit of building a collective, moral consciousness, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Human Rights has published the report: Shared Responsibility: A New Paradigm for Supply Chains. It proposes a coordinated response by global and local businesses, governments, international organizations, philanthropic groups, unions and other interest parties to devise collective solutions and share the financial costs of addressing the most entrenched human rights problems in complex supply chains.

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A New Approach to Improving Asia’s Labor Conditions

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A New Approach to Improving Asia’s Labor Conditions

Michael Posner highlights the benefits of the "Shared Responsibility" model and its potential to be more effective than the current policing model in improving workers' rights in the global supply chain. 

The Role of Human Rights Defenders in Enhancing Supply Chains

The Role of Human Rights Defenders in Enhancing Supply Chains

Expanded supply chains also have created millions of new jobs, helping lift hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty. But the rapid growth of supply chains also has brought new challenges, subjecting many of those who work in these industries to exploitation and unsafe working conditions that fail to meet international labour rights standards. How can human rights defenders contribute to improving working conditions while encouraging market growth?

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Ensuring Labor Rights in Global Supply Chains Requires Transparency in All Layers of Multi-Tiered Systems

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Ensuring Labor Rights in Global Supply Chains Requires Transparency in All Layers of Multi-Tiered Systems

Managing risk and promoting sustainability in global supply chains has been a hot topic for over a decade. However, there is still a lack of actionable frameworks to address these pressing challenges.

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Business as Usual is Not an Option: Supply Chains and Sourcing after Rana Plaza.

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Business as Usual is Not an Option: Supply Chains and Sourcing after Rana Plaza.

In April 2014, the Center published Business as Usual is Not an Option: Supply Chains and Sourcing after Rana Plaza. The collapse of Rana Plaza, which killed over 1,100 workers, revealed the safety risks and poor working conditions endemic in the Bangladeshi garment industry. On the basis of over 100 interviews and two convenings in New York and Dhaka, which brought buyers together with their local suppliers, we identified indirect sourcing as the problem most in need of greater attention.