Human Rights

Adequate Wages vs. Living Wages: Implementation Guidance for Companies

BSR’s Human Rights team unpacks the differences in terminology, provides practical guidance on how companies can determine the Adequate Wage for a location, and shares what companies can expect to come from reporting and human rights due diligence requirements.

An Impact-Based Approach to Responsible AI

AI is evolving at speed, creating unprecedented opportunities and challenges across every industry and function. A responsible approach to AI goes beyond policies and principles to consider AI’s impacts on people and the environment across the company’s value chain over the short, medium and long term. BSR’s tech team offers key considerations for navigating AI’s evolving landscape responsibly.

The CSDDD: Implications for the Finance Industry

WBA’s 2024 Social Benchmark evaluated the world’s 2,000 most influential companies and found that approximately 90% of financial institutions assessed scored zero on human rights due diligence.

Responsible Innovation in the Automotive Industry

The automotive sector is experiencing a period of significant change. With growing concerns about climate change and environmental impacts, sustainability has become a strategic priority for automotive organizations.

How Financial Institutions Can Manage Human Rights-Related Risks

The story of human rights in the US is one of ongoing struggles as diverse movements seek to push for—or against—a more inclusive, just, and dignified country for all people.

Advancing a Just Transition: Lessons from Company Practices

Companies are facing multiple challenges to advancing the just transition within their operations that must be overcome to ensure that people are prioritized throughout the climate transition process. In our work with companies, BSR has identified a few actions that support advancing the just transition.

Three Approaches for Integrating Human Rights into Corporate Risk Registers

Integrating human rights risks into a corporate risk register is a tactic that companies can use to identify human rights risks in their operations as mandated by emerging regulations. BSR outlines three approaches—of varying levels of intensity—to ensure that risk registers effectively measure human rights risks.

Twenty Years of Implementing Living Wage

There has been a surge of company engagement on Living Wage in recent years due to changing regulatory, investor expectations and increasing employer commitments to their workers. The lack of harmonization on what is the “best” Living Wage for each location remains one of the most significant barriers to global adoption.

Embedding Human Rights from Boots to the Boardroom

Business can use the findings of human rights due diligence to catalyze the development and implementation of long-term human rights action plans. To do this, they need buy-in from all levels of the business.