Human Rights

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.

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.

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.

Best Practices for Human Rights Due Diligence in Tech Sales Channels

Many of the human rights risks for hardware and software companies are related to the misuse of their products and services in ways that are connected to adverse human rights impacts.