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Explore the impact of rapidly changing regulations and standards on key functions across your organization, along with recommendations for how to adapt going forward.

Business Transformation, Emerging Issues, Governance, Human Rights, Sustainability Reporting

BSR conducted an assessment with the goal of providing insights about general practices regarding responsible supplier exit to help inform company strategies and approaches to the issue. This review provides companies with an overview and identifies recommendations on minimum requirements, leadership in the space, and quick wins. 

Human Rights, Supply Chain

Companies face a growing need to address the human rights risks within their transport and logistics operations. BSR shares principal risks and challenges in the sector, gaps and opportunities in current approaches, and potential paths to move forward, including through collective action.

Human Rights, Transport and Logistics

Business, government, and civil society leaders from around the world will come together in New York during the UN General Assembly and Climate Week NYC for critical discussions on environmental and social issues. Explore our list of key events hosted by BSR and others to help you maximize your participation this fall.

Climate Change, Human Rights, Business Transformation, Sustainability Management

In the United States, electoral uncertainty, threats to democracy, and the potential for instability and chaos are notably apparent as the country faces an enormously consequential election this fall. What are the risks for sustainable business, and what proactive steps can business leaders take to mitigate them?

Business Transformation, Climate Change, Emerging Issues, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, Financial Services, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Nature, Technology

This report is a practical resource for financial institutions and anyone seeking to engage them on reproductive and LGBTQI+ rights in the US context.

Human Rights, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, Financial Services

Learn about the implications of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and what this means for business leaders going forward.

Sustainability Reporting, Human Rights, Sustainable Futures Lab, Climate Change, Sustainability Management, Supply Chain

An overview of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, including an overview of the Directive and its requirements as well as a section for frequently asked questions.

Human Rights, Supply Chain, Sustainability Reporting

BSR’s new guide, funded by the Omidyar Network, is a practical resource for anyone seeking to engage with global technology companies on digital rights issues related to the development, deployment, and use of their products and services.

Technology, Human Rights

Based on interviews with member companies operating in the Transport and Logistics sector, BSR shares the 10 most relevant human rights impacts for such businesses.

Human Rights, Transport and Logistics

An overview of modern slavery, the relevant legislative trends and regulations, a brief analysis of responsible recruitment, and an introduction to BSR’s service offerings to address modern slavery. 

Human Rights

An overview of the EU Forced Labor Regulation, covering general scope, obligations for companies and enforcement mechanisms.

Human Rights, Supply Chain

Updated: April 2024. A tool that identifies countries prone to conflict and high human rights risks, focused on conflict and fragile states/areas.

Human Rights

Insights+ provides insights and foresight that empower sustainability leaders to be strategic C-Suite advisors by identifying and analyzing emerging and cross-cutting sustainability issues, as well as supporting their efforts to achieve tangible progress toward a more just and sustainable world.

In the sixth edition of Insights+, the Human Rights, Climate, and Technology teams set out the latest developments in upcoming regulations, discuss the implications for how AI is utilized in business across industries, and spotlight key emerging issues.

Human Rights, Technology, Climate Change

This briefing provides an overview of business implications and recommended actions related to Myanmar’s military conscription law.

Human Rights

The following worksheet has been compiled based on BSR’s Supplier Code of Conduct Review tool. The best practices listed are compiled based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as well as leading guidance from the Responsible Business Alliance.

Supply Chain, Human Rights

BSR’s Energy for a Just Transition collaboration explored the modern slavery risks associated with the energy transition and identified ways to address these risks.

Human Rights, Energy and Extractives, Collaboration

BSR's human rights impact assessment of the Lantern Program identifies and prioritizes human rights impacts and provides recommendations for action to address these impacts.

Human Rights, Technology

International humanitarian law—which applies in situations of armed conflict and war—creates additional areas of heightened risk for companies operating in such contexts, necessitating a heightened level of due diligence. This short briefer provides an overview of these risks and actions to both prepare for and respond to crisis in a rights-respecting way.

Human Rights

Challenges, recommendations, and best practices related to human rights abuse and remedy.

Human Rights

This report identifies human rights issues associated with the growing importance of AI technology in healthcare and provides recommendations to companies on addressing these impacts.

Human Rights, Technology, Healthcare

Insights+ provides insights and foresight that empower the CSO to be a strategic C-Suite advisor by crystallizing emerging and cross-cutting sustainability issues, enabling companies to elevate their strategic ambition and achieve tangible progress toward a more just and sustainable world.

In this fourth edition of the Insights+, the Future of Reporting team highlights the latest developments in sustainability reporting, explores the implications of these developments across specific business functions, and hints at what might be around the corner.

Sustainability Reporting, Human Rights, ESG, Financial Services, Business Transformation

This FAQ sets out BSR’s perspective on generative AI and its implications for ethics and human rights.

Human Rights, Technology

A dive into the potential and ongoing impacts of the EU's Force Labor Product Ban Proposal.

Human Rights

This memo provides a brief overview of the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Azerbaijan, including background on the history of conflict and timeline of events, as well as resources and recommendations for response aligned with international human rights standards. This memo follows outreach by civil society alerting BSR to the crisis, the role of business, and potential connections to gross human rights violations. It includes information that companies might anticipate seeing in the media or hearing from civil society in the near term.

Human Rights

Financial institutions are increasingly using AI technologies, from reducing operational costs to delivering customer service. Yet this evolution may bring human rights risks—as well as opportunities—that companies can’t ignore.

Financial Services, Human Rights

Updated, June 2023

Sustainability Management, Sustainability Reporting, Human Rights

Explore human rights issues associated with the increased use of AI technology in the retail sector and recommendations to companies on how they can address the human rights impacts of AI in retail in BSR's new report.

Consumer Products, Human Rights, Technology

A tool that helps companies review their human rights policies, structured around minimum requirements and leading practice.

Human Rights

An overview of modern slavery, from emerging frameworks to company involvement through individual corporate and collective action.

Human Rights

A tool designed to assess grievance mechanisms against the eight “Effectiveness Criteria” in the UNGPs.

Human Rights

Guidance on design and implementation of human rights strategies and best practices from companies.

Human Rights

Guidance on the elements of human rights governance, featuring example structures and company insights.

Human Rights, Governance

This toolkit provides analytical and operational decision-making guidance for tech companies on navigating conflict-related issues.

Human Rights, Technology

This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on the relationship between climate change and people. 

Climate Change, Human Rights

This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on human rights assessments. We believe that identifying and prioritizing the actual and potential human rights impacts with which a company may be involved is a first critical step in avoiding, preventing, and mitigating harm to people associated with business activity.

Human Rights

Explore the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for businesses operating in the beauty and personal care sector.

Human Rights, Consumer Products

By understanding human rights risks and impacts across the food, beverage, and agriculture supply chain, companies can better mitigate potential negative effects and advance human rights for all.

Food, Beverage, and Agriculture, Human Rights

The luxury sector comprises a wide range of businesses and activities. While each has its own human rights profile and challenges, BSR shares universal human rights risks and opportunities for companies operating in this sector. 

Consumer Products, Human Rights

Explore the most urgent human rights impacts for the industrial manufacturing sector as well as opportunities for companies in this sector.

Human Rights, Industrials

SaaS services address numerous business needs, and they are behind many of the consumer-facing products and platforms we use every day. This report identifies salient human rights risks and makes recommendations to SaaS providers on how to avoid, prevent, and mitigate adverse human rights impacts associated with their individual services and the sector as a whole.

Technology, Human Rights

BSR’s Toolkit for Corporate Action to End Gun Violence was developed in collaboration with Everytown for Gun Safety. Gun violence is a national issue in the US. Due to the pervasiveness of gun violence, businesses, their employees, business partners, and customers are all likely to have been impacted by the issue at some point. While many companies see the issue of gun violence as falling outside their sphere of responsibility and influence, companies can and should take action to protect their employees, consumers, and the communities they operate in.

Human Rights

According to the UNGPs, companies should identify and assess any actual or potential adverse human rights impacts to gauge human rights risks. BSR shares its human rights assessment methodology to help with this important first step of human rights due diligence.

Human Rights

This report explores the intersection between climate and human rights and makes recommendations on taking first steps to create long-term, resilient business strategies that address human rights impacts related to physical climate impacts as well as the transition to a low carbon economy.

Human Rights, Climate Change

After 10 years of implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), companies are increasingly expected to address the harms they have caused or contributed to through their business relationships. This brief explains what effective remedy is, the role of business, and five recommendations for companies to improve access.

Human Rights

The Global Business Coalition against Human Trafficking (GBCAT) has released a new toolkit that aims to help businesses that work in corporate supply chains to quickly identify areas of the business which carry the highest risk of modern slavery and develop a plan to identify, prevent, and address risks.

Supply Chain, Human Rights, Collaboration

According to many ethical and human rights frameworks, software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies have a responsibility to address adverse impacts that may be associated with their business relationships and use of their products and services.

Technology, Human Rights

We can see and feel the human rights impacts of products and services. This issue brief explains downstream human rights due diligence, why it’s important, coming advancements, and how to get started.

Human Rights

How can companies determine whether they have caused, contributed, or are directly linked to an adverse impact through their business relationships? A new white paper explores seven questions to help companies determine their connection to negative impacts and how to reframe these questions to identify appropriate actions to prevent and mitigate potential adverse human rights impacts that may occur in the future.

Human Rights

In recent years, society’s expectations for the biopharmaceutical industry to advance the right to health has broadened. Gathered from BSR’s direct engagement with pharma companies, we share the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the healthcare sector.

Healthcare, Human Rights

The BSR tool guides companies through human rights due diligence in situations when very little time is available. The tool also makes specific reference to the Siracusa Principles, adopted by the UN Economic and Social Council in 1984, which describe limitations on the restriction on human rights that governments may apply for reasons of public health or national emergency.

Human Rights

Women’s Empowerment, Supply Chain, Human Rights

This report explores the intimate connection between climate resilience and human rights and outlines how companies can address this nexus.

Human Rights, Climate Change

Artificial intelligence (AI)—and the big data business models underpinning it—is disrupting how we live, work, do business, and govern. We have published three papers describing a human rights-based blueprint for responsible business practice with regard to AI, both within and beyond the technology sector.

Technology, Sustainability Management, Human Rights

The extractives sector comprises a wide range of businesses and activities, each with its own human rights profile and challenges. In this primer, BSR shares universal human rights risks and opportunities for companies operating in this sector. 

Human Rights, Energy and Extractives

Learn about the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the power and utilities sector, as well as opportunities that companies can take to make positive impact.

Energy and Extractives, Human Rights

The financial sector comprises a wide range of businesses and activities, each with its own human rights profile and challenges. In this primer, BSR shares universal human rights risks and opportunities for financial services companies. 

Human Rights, Financial Services