Human Rights

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.

The EU AI Act: 11 Recommendations for Business

The EU AI Act applies to all AI systems impacting people in the EU across all sectors. Businesses can prioritize the order in which provisions take effect, starting with prohibited AI, followed by AI systems that interact with people, and finally high-risk AI systems. BSR's Technology team discusses how a human rights-based approach will help ensure compliance.

Driving Forward Human Rights in Transport & Logistics

Human rights risks and impacts in the transport & logistics sector have historically been overlooked, despite the criticality of these operations for many businesses. Emerging sustainability regulations, including the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, require companies to conduct human rights due diligence on their transport & logistics activities.

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.

Why Every Business Needs to Think about Responsible AI

It’s time for all companies to take a human rights-based approach to the deployment and use of artificial intelligence (AI). Upcoming regulations will require companies to take appropriate measures to identify current and potential impacts.

Decoding Nature’s Soundscapes

Using new technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analysis, scientists are getting closer to understanding how organisms and ecosystems use sound, or “bioacoustics,” to communicate.

Tech-Driven Insight to Address Labor Exploitation: TAT Launches Third Accelerator

This month, Tech Against Trafficking (TAT) launched the third iteration of its flagship Accelerator program, partnering with Issara Institute and Polaris Project’s Nonechka program.