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- Claret Vargas – Measuring What Matters: A Key Challenge in Human Rights and Business June 21, 2016
- Francis West – Leadership and being first aren’t the same things: An assessment of the UK National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights June 3, 2016
- Margaret Jungk resigns from UN Working Group and emphasises need for stronger measurement in business and human rights March 8, 2016
- Isabella Stanbrook – Why is measurement an important theme for business and human rights in 2016? February 12, 2016
- Agathe Derain – Human rights and business: Could performance measurement be premature? February 1, 2016
Category Archives: Indices and ratings
Feb 12 2016
Isabella Stanbrook – Why is measurement an important theme for business and human rights in 2016?
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This post was contributed by Isabella Stanbrook, senior analyst at Sancroft. More than two thirds of the world’s fifty largest companies already have a specific human rights policy. This reflects a growing corporate awareness of human rights impacts. In the past, … Continue reading →
Posted by: Posted on February 12, 2016 by Damiano de Felice
Tagged with: business, human rights, modern slavery, qualitative, ranking, rating, reporting
Dec 1 2015
UN FORUM SERIES – Competition, Collaboration, and Corporate Accountability Rankings
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This post was contributed by David Sullivan, an independent consultant specializing in technology and human rights. Tech companies are in a tough sport when it comes to censorship and surveillance. Governments continue to demand new levels of access and control over … Continue reading →
Posted by: Posted on December 1, 2015 by Damiano de Felice
Tagged with: business, david sullivan, digital rights, enough project, freedom of expression, gni, human rights, privacy, ranking
Nov 13 2015
UN FORUM SERIES – How do technology companies integrate freedom of expression and privacy rights?
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This post was contributed by Allon Bar, research coordinator with the Ranking Digital Rights project. People around the world increasingly rely on the products and services of companies from the information communication and technology (ICT) sector for many aspects of their … Continue reading →
Posted by: Posted on November 13, 2015 by Damiano de Felice
Tagged with: benchmark, business, digital rights, expression, human rights, ICT, privacy, ranking
Nov 9 2015
UN FORUM SERIES – Creating industry-specific standards to operationalize the “responsibility to respect”
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Posted in: Indices and ratings, Management tools
This post was contributed by Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, research director at NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. Any measurement of progress requires a baseline – determining whether the dial has moved can only be assessed if we know where it was … Continue reading →
Posted by: Posted on November 9, 2015 by Damiano de Felice
Tagged with: business, Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, FLA, human rights, indicator, industry-based, metrics, nyu stern, sector-based, standards
Nov 7 2015
UN FORUM SERIES – A new benchmark for human rights
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This post was contributed by Sudeep Chakravarti, an Indian writer and journalist. The post was first published on Livemint.com. Some weeks ago, I wrote about corporate human rights benchmarks being works in progress, in a column that also speculated about a somewhat extreme … Continue reading →
Posted by: Posted on November 7, 2015 by Damiano de Felice
Tagged with: benchmark, business, corporate, human rights, ranking, Sudeep Chakravarti
Nov 4 2015
UN FORUM SERIES – We have SDGs now, but how do we measure them?
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Posted in: Human Rights Impact Assessments, Indices and ratings
This post was contributed by Kate Anderson, senior policy analyst and associate fellow in the Center for Universal Education of the Brookings Institute. The post was first posted on the Brookings Institute’s website. Does the world agree on the definition of … Continue reading →
Posted by: Posted on November 4, 2015 by Damiano de Felice
Tagged with: education, indicators, innovation, kate anderson, measuring, participation, SDGs, sustainable development
Nov 3 2015
UN FORUM SERIES – Implementing the Guiding Principles: The Challenge of Measurement
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Posted in: Human Rights Impact Assessments, Indices and ratings, Reporting
This post was contributed by Margaret Jungk, Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights. They called it ‘the plane that became a convertible’. In 1988, on a routine flight from Hilo to Honolulu, Aloha Airlines … Continue reading →
Posted by: Posted on November 3, 2015 by Damiano de Felice
Tagged with: assessment, business, human rights, indicators, margaret jungk, measuring, tracking, working group
Oct 30 2015
UN FORUM SERIES – Encouraging transparency in Myanmar: Pwint Thit Sa
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This post was contributed by Vicky Bowman, Director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business. The Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) recently released its second annual report on Transparency in Myanmar Enterprises (TiME), otherwise known as Pwint Thit Sa (which … Continue reading →
Posted by: Posted on October 30, 2015 by Damiano de Felice
Tagged with: corruption, enterprises, human rights, myanmar, pwint thit sa, responsible business, transparency, vicky bowman
Oct 29 2015
UN FORUM SERIES – What should banks do to take human rights seriously?
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This post was contributed by Ryan Brightwell, Researcher and Editor at BankTrack. The banking sector provides the lending that drives much of the world’s economic activity. As such, whether banks apply strong human rights standards to their finance has knock-on … Continue reading →
Posted by: Posted on October 29, 2015 by Damiano de Felice
Tagged with: bank, banktrack, guiding principles, human rights, remedy, ryan brightwell, transparency
Oct 28 2015
UN FORUM SERIES – Radical Transparency, or how to use public data for large scale Social-Impact Assessments
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This post was contributed by Paul Middelkoop, human rights researcher at Questionmark. One of the biggest challenges for a company that wants to align its conduct with the United Nations Guiding Principles (UNGPs) is to determine the salience of many different risks across … Continue reading →
Posted by: Posted on October 28, 2015 by Damiano de Felice
Tagged with: assessment, business, human rights, impact, paul middelkoop, questionmark, social