Human Rights and Governance

Advancing Human Rights and Governance

Banking The Unbanked

Be inspired by Business Fights Poverty NYC keynote speaker, Naureen Hyat, as she tells us about Tez Financial Services, a Visa Everywhere Initiative award-winning technological innovation, which is positioned to bridge the gap towards the financial inclusion of women in Pakistan.
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The Role Banks Can Play in Advancing Gender Equality

What happens when a bank makes a move towards achieving greater gender parity internally, combined with a razor sharp focus on the ambitions set out in SDG 5? Learn more in a conversation with Laura Hemrika, Global Head, Corporate Citizenship & Foundations and Patsy Doerr, Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Credit Suisse.
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Inviting Men to Make a Difference: the #HeForShe movement

Engaging men as allies can be a powerful accelerator to help companies, governments and institutions achieve gender equality. Elizabeth Nyamayaro takes us behind the scenes of how UN Women built a worldwide network of men who are championing SDG 5 – the gender equality goal.​
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How Can We Save Purpose from Purpose-Wash?

This year, Business in the Community reported that companies are in danger of purpose-wash. Whilst 86% of the companies surveyed had a statement of purpose, 83% had not considered its implications for their departments or team targets. This implementation gap threatens to undermine the potential of business purpose as a force for good.
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The New ILO Violence and Harassment Convention: Signalling a Shift in Norms and Expectations

On 21 June 2019, the International Labour Conference agreed with a near-unanimous vote to adopt a new ILO Convention to eliminate violence and harassment in the world of work. As the focus now shifts to ratification and implementation of this new international treaty, leading businesses are taking a hard look at their own policies and practices and assessing whether they, too, are meeting the new global benchmark for protection and prevention.
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Romero: The Ambivalence of the Sacred

About ten years ago, I hosted a conference on religion, business and peace.  It was held shortly after Yale University Press released my book, Prophets, Profits and Peace, which dealt with the same topic and I wanted to see if we could further engage representatives from religion and business to see how each could separately and together foster peace. The conference proved fruitful, but one of the more interesting aspects was the reaction of invitees. 
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Purpose Precedes Clarity; Clarity Precedes Success

Following my experiences of Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019, I explore the link between purpose, clarity, and success, and share learnings about how companies around the world can embed purpose authentically.
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How Should Business Encourage Family-Friendly Workplaces?

Family friendly workplace policies, such as paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and support for affordable childcare, play a fundamental role in ensuring children get the best start possible in life. But are businesses doing all they can to support parents manage a changing work-family balance?​
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How Male Mentors Can Develop Women at Work

The workforce includes more women — especially in traditionally male professions — and business leaders are changing workplace environments to be more flexible, collaborative and caring in a calculated effort to attract and retain the best talent, both male and female.​
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As One: A Different Chapter in Table Tennis Diplomacy

In the third edition of a series exploring the relationship between culture, film, and business, Timothy Fort shines a light on how “ping-pong diplomacy” helped countries participating in World Table Tennis Tournaments along a path of more peaceful, open interaction.
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How Can Business Advance Gender Equality Across the Value Chain by Engaging Men as Allies?

Join us and a panel of experts for a live written discussion to explore how business can advance gender equality across the value chain by engaging men as allies, taking place on Wednesday 11 September 2019, 16:30-17:30 BST/ / 11.30-12.30 EDT
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How Businesses Can Help Achieve the SDGs for Refugees

Following on from Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019, Daphne Jayasinghe of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), reflects on how businesses can best support refugees to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She discusses the role of job creation in driving forward SDG progress for refugees and the value of cross-sectoral collaboration. She also offers an opportunity for businesses to support refugee inclusion in the SDG Agenda ahead of the SDG Summit taking place in September this year.
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New Fund to Address Social Isolation Through Technology Closing Soon

Social isolation can affect people at any stage of their life and technology has a unique power to prevent this, bringing people together and redefining connection. Nesta Challenges’ Tech to Connect challenge seeks to offer civil society organisations support in helping to build more connected communities and reduce social isolation.
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Eliminating Violence and Harassment Just Became an Obligation for Businesses Worldwide

On June 21, 2019, the International Labour Organization (ILO) voted overwhelmingly to adopt a Convention on the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work. This represents an important step forward on strengthening protections for all workers around the world against violence and harassment.
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We Finally Have an Official Climate Emergency. But is that the full picture?

From climate change to climate crisis and now a climate emergency, the growing debate around the language used for some of our biggest global challenges is missing the most important word for addressing them: resilience.​
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SURVEY: Advancing Gender Equality by Engaging Men as Allies Survey

This survey forms part of the Business Fights Poverty Challenge: How can business advance gender equality across the value chain by engaging men as allies? The objective of this survey is to engage the Business Fights Poverty network of members and other experts in order to collectively benefit from our shared knowledge and experience.
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How Can Business Advance Gender Equality Across the Value Chain by Engaging Men as Allies?

Men have a critical role to play in achieving gender equality. What is less clear is what this might mean in practice for organisations in their approach to advance gender equality. A new Business Fights Poverty Challenge will explore how businesses and organisations are advancing gender equality within their organizations and across the value chain (spanning agriculture, supply, operations, distribution, retail and marketing), by effectively engaging men as allies for gender equality. 
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Not Just a Women’s Issue

What are some of the causes and consequences of violence against women? What role do men play? How can men unite to ensure the world is safer for everyone: women and girls, men and boys? Dr. Jackson Katz emphasizes how violent behaviour is tied to prevailing definitions of manhood and how movements to end gender inequality and violence against women benefit everyone, men and women alike.
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Managing Human Rights Risks: Embracing a More Robust Approach to Human Rights Risks in Supply Chains

Oxfam will lead a panel at Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019 on its supermarket campaign, Behind the Barcodes, giving a platform to two influential supermarkets as well as perspectives from consumers, investors and a multi-stakeholder initiative on ethical trade. The top six UK supermarkets have already responded to the campaign. As more consumers and investors show their concern about these issues, more rapid progress will be made. ​
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How Can Consumer Goods Companies Harness Technology to Most Effectively Tackle Modern Slavery in their Global Supply Chains?

According to the Global Slavery Index, 40.3 million people are in some form of modern slavery, including 24.9 million in forced labour. 71% of the total are women and girls. The ILO reports that US$150 billion of illegal profits are generated by forced labour each year.
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What do we mean by "Human Rights and Governance"?

Explore initiatives that advance human rights and promote effective governance, driving global change, enforcing equity and alleviating poverty.

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