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Keeping Workers in the Loop
How will circular fashion, at scale, impact job opportunities and quality? Keeping Workers in the Loop brings together industry leaders and stakeholder to explore circular fashion and jobs in the decade ahead by taking a futures approach.
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Strategi & ledelse
Resilient Business Strategies - Decisive Action for a Transformed World
Resilient business strategies are an essential pathway to achieving a just world and an economy that delivers truly inclusive and sustainable prosperity.
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Menneskerettigheder
Building toward Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence
Last week the EU Parliament adopted its legislative own-initiative report on corporate due diligence and corporate accountability. In light of these current developments, take a look again at this article on mandatory human rights due diligence.
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Supply chain
What Business Can Expect from China’s 14th Five-Year Plan
As China finalizes its 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), what are the macro themes for the sustainability world to watch, and how will they impact business?
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Supply chain
Ensuring Circular Fashion is Good for People—as well as the Environment
In light of the circular economy theme on csr.dk take a look at BSR's blog article about circular fashion and the potential social impacts that may emerge from a mainstream shift towards it.
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Menneskerettigheder
Six Steps to Prevent and Address Child Labor in the Palm Oil Industry
BSR supported Wilmar’s Child Protection Implementation Manual -a guide for establishing and implementing policies related to safeguarding and protecting children from child labor and other forms of abuse in palm oil operations as well as remedial actions.
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Menneskerettigheder
Seven Questions to Determine a Company’s Connections to Human Rights Abuses
The actions that a company must take to prevent, mitigate, and remedy adverse human rights impacts—what the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) call “appropriate actions”—depend on the company’s connection to that impact.
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Klima, miljø og energi
The Paris Agreement’s 5th Anniversary: Accelerating the Momentum for Net Zero
As we observe the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement, we discuss private sector action in making the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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Medarbejder
Why Company Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs Need Intersectional Approaches
As more and more companies develop, enact, and expand women’s empowerment and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, business needs to understand women’s diverse and distinct experiences and undertake an intersectional approach.
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Samfund
Maritime Anti-Corruption Network Embarks on a New Journey
BSR is proud to announce that the collaborative initiative Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) is prepared to take the next step of becoming its own independent organization.
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Menneskerettigheder
Forced Labor and Human Trafficking: Four Regulatory and Legislative Trends Business Should Watch
Governments are increasingly scrutinizing human trafficking and forced labor abuses in private sector operations. Businesses need to pay attention to new regulations.
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Menneskerettigheder
Data and Tech Acceleration in COVID-19: The Human Rights Impact on Vulnerable Garment Workers
On the occasion of International Women's Day take a look at this: BSR examined the impacts of digital transformation on women garment workers in our new report, Digital Technology and Data in the Garment Supply Chain during COVID-19.
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Supply chain
Three Ways to Improve Supply Chain Sustainability in the Decisive Decade
For companies, it is a business imperative to have a more transparent, resilient, responsible, and sustainable global supply chain model. Here are three steps for improving supply chain sustainability.
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Supply chain
China in 2021: Looking beyond COVID-19
BSR takes a look at four trends to watch in China’s manufacturing and supply chain environment in 2021, a year still shaped by COVID-19.
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Menneskerettigheder
How Business Can Support Survivors of Human Trafficking
GBCAT is launching a new resource, A Guide for Business on Empowerment and Employment of Survivors of Human Trafficking, to inform companies on how they can support the long-term recovery of survivors of human trafficking.
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Strategi & ledelse
2021: Optimism and Resolve for the Decisive Decade
It is time to turn ambition to action. In the year ahead, BSR will be focusing on three broad areas:(1) business transformation to meet ESG objectives; (2) decisive climate action to translate commitments into real change (3) creating an inclusive economy
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Menneskerettigheder
One Year On: A Human Rights Review of the Oversight Board
In 2019, BSR conducted an independent human rights review for Facebook to inform the creation of its Oversight Board. One year later, we are publishing a gap analysis on the Oversight Board and its progress.
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Strategi & ledelse
Five Steps to Sustainability Reporting in an Evolving Landscape
BSR has published a practical guide, Five Steps to Good Sustainability Reporting, to help companies master the fundamentals of decision-useful disclosure that enables positive sustainability outcomes.
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Klima, miljø og energi
What Businesses Operating in Vietnam Can Do about Climate Risk
All companies operating in Vietnam need to know that the country is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. How can businesses in Vietnam best prepare and build resilience?
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Menneskerettigheder
The Human Rights Impacts of Workplace Monitoring Technology
As the use of tools designed to monitor workers accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, employers need to consider the human rights impacts that may arise from workplace monitoring tools when implementing such technologies in the workplace.
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Menneskerettigheder
Companies Can’t Ignore the ‘She-cession’ Created by the COVID-19 Pandemic
In light of International Women's Day take a look at this: COVID-19 has fueled a recession for women. BSR recommends six actions for companies to incorporate a gender lens on recovery efforts.
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Menneskerettigheder
How Business Should Respond to the Coup in Myanmar
Drawing on the UNGPs, UN guidance for business in conflict situations, and BSR’s own experience advising companies on human rights due diligence in high-risk contexts, here are seven practical steps that businesses with a presence in Myanmar can take.
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Menneskerettigheder
Women’s Empowerment in the Era of Social Distancing
BSR's HERproject is a collaborative initiative that strives to empower low-income women working in global supply chains. A new digital tool from HERproject aims to reach women workers in global value chains and build resilience to COVID-19 impacts.
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Menneskerettigheder
Building toward Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence
The proposed European mandatory human rights due diligence (EU mHRDD) legislation is a significant development for corporate human rights programs. We present our recommendations on how this legislation can be as effective as possible.
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Menneskerettigheder
COVID-19 and Beyond: Technology, Responsible Decision Making, and Public Health Emergencies
BSR is releasing a paper that sets out the key elements of a human rights-based approach to the use of data and technology solutions during public health emergencies.
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Supply chain
The Human Cost of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Workers in the Supply Chain
To understand the human cost of the COVID-19 pandemic in supply chains, HERproject interviewed over 1,000 workers and managers in Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Kenya, and Vietnam and released its findings and recommendations in a new report.
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Menneskerettigheder
Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: We Need to Talk about the Use Phase
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