This Way Up: Unpacking human rights for business

This Way Up: Unpacking human rights for business
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This Way Up: Unpacking human rights for business

This Way Up: Unpacking human rights for business is the first podcast from Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Over the course of each mini-series, we will outline and interrogate the latest issues related to business and human rights, bringing together diverse expertise from front-line activists, civil society, companies, investors and academia. The aim? To figure out together which way is "up" - the actions we must take to ensure continually improving corporate respect for human rights.

  1. World Benchmarking Alliance at UN Business and Human Rights Forum

    NOV 29

    World Benchmarking Alliance at UN Business and Human Rights Forum

    More than 60% of companies assessed by the World Benchmarking Alliance are improving their human rights practices, but there’s still a long way to go. Live from #UNForumBHR, Namit Agarwal spells out what he believes companies and governments must do next.

    1 min
  2. Effective implementation of a just transition - UN Business and Human Rights Forum

    NOV 28

    Effective implementation of a just transition - UN Business and Human Rights Forum

    “We need more implementation to make sure that what’s already there can help us get somewhere.”  A positive perspective from Mutuso Dhliwayo, Executive Director at Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association on the huge difference that effective implementation of pre-existing regulations and frameworks could make towards a just transition.

    1 min
  3. Putting workers at the centre of the just transition - live from UN Business and Human Rights Forum

    NOV 27

    Putting workers at the centre of the just transition - live from UN Business and Human Rights Forum

    “There is not a just transition if you don’t bring workers into the negotiations from the beginning.”  Live from #UNForumBHR 🎧, ITUC Co-Director Diana Junquera tells us why governments and companies must take responsibility and connect with workers in the just transition process.

    1 min
  4. The role of investors and governments in the just transition - live from UN Business and Human Rights Forum

    NOV 27

    The role of investors and governments in the just transition - live from UN Business and Human Rights Forum

    How should investors continue to press their portfolio companies to engage with just transition issues, and what role do governments have to play in a shifting and uncertain future environment?  Fascinating insight from Chavi Keeney Nana at the Interfaith Centre on Corporate Responsibility live from #UNForumBHR.

    2 min
  5. Female workers in Bangladesh and the just transition - live from UN Business and Human Rights Forum

    NOV 27

    Female workers in Bangladesh and the just transition - live from UN Business and Human Rights Forum

    As female workers in Bangladesh are increasingly uprooted from traditional agricultural work to industrial jobs, worker involvement in how the just transition unfolds will be essential, as Sunzida Sultana from Karmojibi Nari tells us at #UNForumBHR.

    1 min
  6. “Adaptation is such a key part for the Global South, and within that adaptation it’s really about the green industrialisation.”

    NOV 18

    “Adaptation is such a key part for the Global South, and within that adaptation it’s really about the green industrialisation.”

    Fascinating perspective from Kudakwashe Manjonjo at Power Shift Africa at COP29 on how financing green industrialisation won’t just support the world’s action on climate change, but if done properly could also help 1.3 billion people in Africa move out of energy poverty.

    2 min

  7. NOV 15

    Live from COP29: “When we talk of finance, we talk of accountability.”

    A must-listen interview from #COP29 with Joan Carling, Executive Director of The Indigenous Peoples Rights International, as she explains why human rights due diligence and centring the rights of Indigenous Peoples must at the centre of any conversation around the just transition.

    4 min

  8. NOV 15

    Jennifer Krill on Indigenous rights and transition minerals

    Earthworks Executive Director Jennifer Krill responds to recommendations laid out by the UN Secretary General on respect for Indigenous rights relating to transition minerals, and looks at how this momentum must be supported by the climate movement and UN member states alike as we move towards COP30 in Brazil.

    2 min
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This Way Up: Unpacking human rights for business is the first podcast from Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Over the course of each mini-series, we will outline and interrogate the latest issues related to business and human rights, bringing together diverse expertise from front-line activists, civil society, companies, investors and academia. The aim? To figure out together which way is "up" - the actions we must take to ensure continually improving corporate respect for human rights.

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