MEET OUR RACIAL JUSTICE & EQUITY PARTNERS
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We are excited to announce the names and work of partners who are shaping our effort to advance racial justice and equity. We are excited to partner with these extraordinary organizations who are working tirelessly to build the power of Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color (BIPOC) communities and address the conditions and systems that have long harmed BIPOC lives.
We recognize that if we hope to contribute to a more just and equitable global society, we must work at home, as well as abroad. Over the next year, we will accompany these partners on their mission and advocate for their work, as they actively shape how HU supports racial justice and equity now and in the future. Learn more about these extraordinary organizations.
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PARTNER HIGHLIGHTS
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Over the past five years, KnowTheChain has assessed the efforts of companies to prevent forced labor in supply chains. Their most recent report looks at evidence for effective human rights due diligence across their benchmark reports and reveals how companies are failing to address forced labor.
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Re:Structure Lab released its “Blueprint” document, which summarizes the findings and recommendations from its series of issue briefs and challenges some commonly-held notions of how the business world should address forced labor.
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We had the pleasure of hosting a Facebook Live conversation with our Racial Justice & Equity partner, Latino Community Fund Georgia. Watch the recording to learn more about the incredible work LCF Georgia is doing to support Georgia’s Latinx community.
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The Guardian's Rights and Freedom Project launched Reporting Myanmar, a series highlighting powerful local reporting from Myanmar that tell the stories that journalists want to tell about what is happening in their country at this critical time.
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has updated its letter calling for mandatory human rights due diligence legislation in Europe, which now includes more than 100 companies as signatories.
Check out Everyday Peace Indicator's latest video on their peace process in Cauca, Colombia, and learn more about their approach to building peace.
Don’t miss this important Global Investigative Journalism Network interview on tips for reporting on migrant workers in the Arab Gulf.
Did you miss Article 3’s Human Rights Day event on “Peace, Security, and the Future of Conflict”? You can read about it in this recap blog.
Check out the Fuller Project's 2021 Digital Impact Report to learn more about how their powerful journalism has changed lives in the last year.
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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT HU
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In case you missed it, in this blog HU Managing Partner Srik Gopal offers some reflections on 2021 as well as some thoughts on what’s ahead in 2022. “There is still much work to be done, but I believe that together we can shift the trajectory of history.”
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We launched a blog series in response to the UN's roadmap for the next 10 years of using the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to make human rights a priority of the global economy. The series spotlights the unique perspectives and lessons learned from our partners, which we must apply to our efforts to achieve our goals.
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WHERE YOU CAN FIND US
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HU Managing Director for Peacebuilding, Melanie Greenberg; Director of Peacebuilding, Leslie Wingender; and Managing Director of Public Engagement, Kehinde Togun had the opportunity to participate in some powerful conversations at this year’s PeaceCon event hosted by Alliance for Peacebuilding. If you attended the conference, you can access these session recordings and more here.
Join us virtually for the annual Knight Media Forum, February 22-24, where conversations will examine current trends impacting American democracy. Register to attend here.
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OTHER NEWS & VIEWS
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As heads of state came together for the One Ocean Summit in France, NGOs from the U.S., EU, and Japan called on their nations to prioritize policies that stop illegal fishing.
Learn more about the winners of Alliance for Peacebuilding's 2022 Melanie Greenberg U.S. Peacebuilding Award of Excellence, Jesse Morton (1978-2021) of Parallel Networks, and Patricia Shafer of NewGen Peacebuilders and Youth & Peace in Action.
Check out this op-ed by Lissette Marquez, a former cruise ship worker and member of Centro de los Derechos del Migrante’s Comité!
This piece in Al Jazeera covers how indigenous Mexican workers in the United States are fighting to be heard amidst the pandemic.
Four out of every five women journalists have lost their jobs in Afghanistan, according to this reporting by Rukhshana Media, the Fuller Project’s partner in a series of dispatches from women all over Afghanistan.
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