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Women’s Empowerment | Sustainability Management | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice | Climate Change

Davos 2018: Advancing the SDGs in a Fractured World

The theme for this year's World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World." Here's what business leaders gathering in Davos this week can do to advance the Sustainable Development Goals and our shared future.

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Technology | Human Rights

The Right to Privacy, 70 Years On

The challenges companies face to respect the human right to privacy are growing substantially. A business response to this challenge should contain these five elements.

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Technology | Human Rights

Seven Things Every Company Should Know about Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Business

These considerations are essential for companies to factor into their AI strategies.

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Healthcare

Pandemics: They’re Everyone’s Business

Global health security is everyone’s business, and examples from these companies demonstrate that collaborating and partnering is the only way forward for pandemic preparedness.

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Human Rights

Surveying the Human Rights Landscape: How Businesses Are Managing Human Rights in 2018

This is the final post from a three-part series featuring our human rights experts’ reflections on the evolving business and human rights landscape in 2017, as well as their perspectives on emerging issues we anticipate in 2018.

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Technology

Children’s Rights Online: A Conversation with UNICEF

Children’s rights often feature prominently when BSR assesses the human rights impacts of information and communications technology (ICT) companies. Dunstan Allison-Hope spoke to Brian Keeley, editor of UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children report, the latest edition of which examines the perils and possibilities of digital technology and connectivity for children, about UNICEF’s work on this issue.

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Sustainability Management

The First 2018 ‘Year in Review’

Here is the very first “year in review” you will read for 2018.

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Women’s Empowerment | Sustainability Management | Human Rights | Climate Change

2017: The Year the C-Suite Got Woke?

2017 overall is a year that will be remembered for two things: political turmoil and a new voice from business. Let us celebrate the leadership business exerted this year and use it as a springboard for positive change in 2018.

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Human Rights

Surveying the Human Rights Landscape: The Evolving External Environment

This is the second post of a three-part series featuring our human rights experts’ reflections on the evolving business and human rights landscape, this time in relation to the external environment.

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Inside BSR

In Case You Missed It: Noteworthy BSR Insights of 2017

We published a lot of blogs throughout 2017, and some of them may have slipped under your radar. So we've rounded up some of our favorites here ICYMI (in case you missed it).

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Inside BSR

The Top BSR Insights of 2017

To close out the year, we looked through our archives to see what insights from our sustainability experts you most enjoyed reading.

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Human Rights | Collaboration

Surveying the Human Rights Landscape: Collaboration on the Rise

In honor of International Human Rights Day, we are kicking off a three-part series featuring our human rights experts’ reflections on the evolving business and human rights landscape in 2017, as well as their perspectives on emerging issues we anticipate in 2018.

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Technology | Human Rights

Remedy against the Machine

How can we ensure access to remedy when decisions are made by machines rather than humans?

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Climate Change

The One Planet Summit Will Kick Off a Year of Focus on Climate Results

We will attend the One Planet Summit in Paris next week to kick off a year when collective focus on climate change will turn from targets to impacts, from promises to results. And we invite companies and other partners to join us.

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Sustainability Management

The Sustainability Reporting Landscape: Q&A with GRI and SASB

We sat down with GRI's Tim Mohin and SASB's Jean Rogers to discuss the relationship between the organizations’ standards and how they can be used in combination.