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It assesses research on working, living, health and transport conditions for migrants working […] View resource Discussion paper Towards Achieving Gender Equity in the Food Sector: What can investors do? 08/02/2024 2 documents 33 pages long Languages: English, Portuguese Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agricultural companies Cocoa Coffee Food companies gender equity Seafood Supply chains Overview Women and gender-diverse people represent an important constituency in the food value chain. Among all working women globally, about one in three works upstream in the food value chain. These women face increasing barriers to safety, recognition and advancement. Yet very little about their experiences has been documented. In the limited instances where the women […] View resource Briefing paper Inequality Inc. How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action 15/01/2024 9 documents 71 pages long Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Billionaires Cost of living Poverty Profiteering Public sector Taxation Overview Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people globally have become poorer. Hardship and hunger are a daily reality for many people worldwide. At current rates, it will take 230 years to end poverty, but we could have our first trillionaire in […] View resource Discussion paper Towards Meaningful Human Rights Impact Assessments: From supermarket commitments to best practice action 11/01/2024 2 documents 55 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Barcodes Food Food products Labour rights Supermarket Supply chains Overview This discussion paper focuses on the commitments that Dutch, German and UK supermarkets made as part of the Behind the Barcodes campaign to conduct human rights impact assessments (HRIAs). To understand whether supermarkets are meaningfully implementing those commitments and to support learning, this paper analyses the HRIAs that supermarkets have published in the past four […] View resource Briefing paper Valuing Women’s Work: A framework for business on gender equality and decent work 21/11/2023 1 documents 31 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Business Decent work Due diligence Gender equality Living wage Unpaid care work Overview Our strategic focus, Valuing Women’s Work (VWW), aims to redefine what ‘work’ means so that all the work women do – paid and unpaid – can truly be valued. This first briefing from the forthcoming series, Briefings for Business on Valuing Women’s Work, is an overview and introduces some of the issues we will be […] View resource Briefing paper A Toxic Legacy: Glencore’s Footprint in Colombia and Peru: European banks and investors must take responsibility 16/11/2023 6 documents 27 pages long Languages: English, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Business Extractives Land rights Rights Overview Glencore’s business model continues to have severe consequences for local communities and the environment. Several scandals have provided evidence of Glencore’s involvement in human rights violations, corruption, tax avoidance and environmental destruction. Glencore’s mines have had devastating impacts on their surrounding environments, with grave consequences for the communities living beside them. This report elaborates on […] View resource Research report Recharging Community Consent: Mining companies, battery minerals and the battle to break from the past 22/09/2023 2 documents 48 pages long Languages: English, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Extractive industries Extractives FPIC Free prior and informed consent Indigenous rights Mining Overview With mining set to expand as part of the sweeping energy transition, it is imperative that future mining only proceed with the full support and consent of Indigenous peoples and frontline communities. In the first policy brief of its kind to focus on the public policy commitments of mining companies extracting five key transition minerals […] View resource Briefing paper Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped 29/06/2023 6 documents 80 pages long Languages: English, French Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords COVID-19 Development finance institutions (DFIs) Private equity Profiteering Universal health coverage (UHC) Overview Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […] View resource Guidelines and toolkits Human Rights Impact Assessment Framework 26/05/2023 1 documents 20 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Human rights impact assessment Supply chains Overview Companies are increasingly engaging in Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs). To assess the quality of company-commissioned HRIAs, Oxfam has developed criteria that cover both process and content. They are key to ensuring that the research captures all relevant adverse risks to human rights, to support companies in understanding how their practices have an impact on […] View resource Briefing paper Threats to Human Rights Defenders: Six ways companies should respond 20/04/2023 2 documents 15 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Activism Human rights Human rights defenders Overview This paper details how companies should respond to the growing number of threats facing human rights defenders, offering six key recommendations. It offers a definition of human rights defenders, an introduction to the threats they face and an overview of the existing normative framework for the protection of defenders. While this paper is not a […] View resource Posts navigation Page 1 Page 2 … Page 33 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know