Rethinking Human Rights Post Covid-19 – Taking a Leadership Approach | Institute for Human Rights and Business

Rethinking Human Rights Post Covid-19 – Taking a Leadership Approach

Video, 08 July 2020

Human Rights has been a focal issue for companies for several years, and COVID-19 has propelled it, and companies’ purpose, to the forefront of employees, investors, customers and other stakeholders’ minds. In this panel, which forms part of EthicalCorp/Reuters annual conference, IHRB's Salil Tripathi joins ITUC's Sharan Burrow and Unilever's Marcela Manubens to discuss how organisations are showing leadership and upholding their role as Human Rights Ambassadors across their direct and indirect operations during the pandemic.

Watch the video on Ethical Corp/Reuters website (45 mins).

Latest IHRB Publications

Lessons from CIIR for the Business and Human Rights Movement

IHRB’s 10th anniversary report rightly notes the business and human rights (BHR) movement’s history predates its visibility over the last couple of decades, with multiple actors nurturing its evolution.

My recent work writing A Record of Change in...

The UN at 75 - Innovation, renewal and business has a critical role to play

The commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) during 2020 has come at a time of great challenge. In addition to sending health and socio-economic shock waves across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has also worsened a number...

Sorry… I Dozed Off Reading Your Modern Slavery Statement

International Anti-Slavery Day on 18 October is a good chance to reflect on that most totemic part of the UK’s, and now Australia’s, modern slavery legislation – the corporate modern slavery statement.

It is nearly 5 years now since the...

15 November 2020

11 November 2020

10 November 2020