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What your BOP strategy is missing: A gender lens
This blog was originally posted on Business Fights Poverty. It is based on the findings of the Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and...
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The 3 most common misconceptions about business and human rights
Human rights remains a topic that companies may reference perfunctorily in their codes of conduct, but few really seem to understand. In their defense, this is in part because, first, best practice...
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Preventing another Rana Plaza: Mapping the path forward
This week American stakeholders announced the formation of the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety and signatories to the European Fire and Building Safety Accord released their Implementation Plan....
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The evolution of multi-stakeholder initiatives: Lessons for the Bangladesh...
In the months since the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh sparked a drive to address worker health and safety in the garment sector, I’ve been suffering a severe case of déjà vu. Here’s how it...
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Why the Ruggie Principles require every company to empower women
I’ve written previously that there is business case for companies to empower women; what I didn’t mention was that even if there were not, there would still be a strong legal case for them to do so....
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Three reasons why the UK National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights...
This week the UK government takes the historic step of becoming one of the first institutions to make an official statement on how companies should operationalize the UN Guiding Principles on Business...
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What the BBC didn’t say about workers in Bangladesh
The BBC’s recent Panorama investigation, Dying for a Bargain, brought welcome attention to the issue of workers’ rights in the Bangladesh garment sector, where more than 1,100 people recently died in...
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Hanging by a thread: Workers’ rights and lives
I was working in my room on the fourth floor of a hotel in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s busy capital, when I saw a man hanging by a rope. To be precise, he was suspended on a fragile-looking piece of wood tied...
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