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BSR Insight Article: Responsible Sourcing Network Helps Companies Combat Human Rights Abuses in Supply Chains
Corporate accountability NGO As You Sow recently launched the Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) in an effort to combat slavery and other human rights abuses in corporate supply chains. RSN provides a space for companies, investors, NGOs, and other stakeholders to share best practices and take coordinated action. RSN is presently working to end forced child labor in Uzbekistan's cotton industry, and addressing the conflict minerals trade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—where profits help fuel one of the world's bloodiest conflicts. Read more
BSR Insight Article: ESG Integration in Emerging Markets
Elissa Goldenberg, Associate, Advisory Services
Eurosif's "Emerging Markets Report</a>" explores the integration of ESG factors into business operations and reporting by companies in emerging markets, which is on the rise but still lower than in developed markets Read more
BSR Insight Article: Biodiversity Conservation and Human Development
Linda Hwang, Former Manager, Research
The private sector is recognized as an essential actor in supporting development and poverty reduction, and companies themselves are increasingly recognizing the business opportunities associated with engaging in development challenges. However, the complex interrelationship between poverty and biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) requires that companies take an integrated perspective to these issues in order to make a positive contribution to the sustainable development of host communities. Yet, today many companies have programs that support biodiversity conservation and separate programs that support local economic development, and in some cases these programs are in conflict. To make positive contributions to sustainable development, companies need to integrate the objectives of these programs and unlock the synergies among business, conservation, and poverty reduction. Read more
BSR Insight Article: Universal Access to HIV Services: A Promise Yet to Be Realized
Mark Little, Director, Healthcare, Advisory Services
More than 20 years after the first World AIDS Day on December 1, 1988, the theme for this year’s observance—“Universal Access and Human Rights”—is a sobering reminder of two challenges that characterize the fight against this epidemic. First, while the global AIDS epidemic has slowed, with UNAIDS reporting a 20 percent decrease in new HIV infections over the past decade, HIV continues to spread in developed and developing countries at rates that outpace treatment by more than 2:1. Second, the HIV epidemic has illuminated and continues to illuminate the inequities in our societies that result from a failure to fully realize human rights. Read more
BSR Insight Article: Global Government Affairs: The Importance of Strengthening Civil Society
Faris Natour, Director, Human Rights
At BSR’s roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C. last week, government affairs and CSR executives from business, along with representatives from civil society and government, discussed the convergence of the CSR and global government affairs agendas, the need for sustainability to be part of the DNA of a company, and the challenges of operating in countries where rule of law is compromised. Read more
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