PARTNER HIGHLIGHTS
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Adding to the timely conversation about global peace and the role of peacebuilders, Frameworks Institute, Alliance for Peacebuilding, and PartnersGlobal released a new report, which delivers evidence-based recommendations for more effective narrative strategies that build public understanding and support for peacebuilding.
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NYU's Stern Center for Business and Human Rights released a new report highlighting the ongoing economic hardships facing migrant construction workers throughout the Gulf, including in Qatar. Stern Center Director Michael Posner discussed the report in Forbes, stating "it's time to protect migrant workers."
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To wrap up Women’s History Month, we conducted a Q&A interview on our blog with Vani Saraswathi, Editor-at-Large and Director of Projects at Migrant-Rights.org, on women migrant workers in the Gulf. Read the March interview to learn more about their innovative approach to advocacy.
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Business for Social Responsibility and the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre published a joint blog series exploring how the business and human rights framework can bridge the gap in current environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices among financial institutions and the companies they invest in.
The Human Trafficking Legal Center (HTLC) is calling on the Biden Administration to robustly implement the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). On April 8, at the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force hearing on the UFLPA, HU’s Kehinde Togun joined HTLC's president, Martina Vandenberg, and other civil society leaders to share how import bans against forced labor can serve as an economic leverage against companies and governments that tolerate these practices in their supply chains.
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante filed a supplemental brief in its complaint against the U.S. Government on behalf of women migrants facing gender discrimination. In the brief, they note that more than a year after the initial filing, no policy changes have been made.
Accountability Lab celebrated its 10 year anniversary in March. Founded as an effort to work with young people to develop new ideas for accountability, transparency, and open government, it has evolved into a global network that is finding ways to shift societal norms, solve intractable challenges and build unlikely networks for change.
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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT HU
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We closed our blog series exploring the U.N. Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights 10 year roadmap with a reflection on how the perspectives our partners have shared throughout the series are informing our approach moving forward.
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“In times of crisis, listening is critical.” In this Center for Effective Philanthropy blog, HU Peacebuilding Manager, Lexi Mairone, joined other members of the Feedback Incentives Learning Group to show how they're working to give partners the space to put their focus on the voices of the communities they serve.
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WHERE YOU CAN FIND US
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Leslie Wingender, one of HU's Directors for Peacebuilding, will be speaking at the European Evaluation Society Conference on a panel titled “Methodological Bricolage for Inclusive Rigor.” Leslie will also join HU Peacebuilding Manager, Zoë Newcomb, on a panel titled “How to Co-Design and Implement Four Critical Components of a Participatory Learning System.” Register for the event, taking place June 6-10.
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OTHER NEWS & VIEWS
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After launching the U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability in 2020, the Administration has announced partner countries across the globe. The U.S. Government seeks to advance the vision and goals of the landmark Global Fragility Act through this strategy in four countries and one sub-region: Haiti, Libya, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, and Coastal West Africa (Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, and Togo). Read the statement from the Administration to learn more.
openDemocracy is publishing a series of first-person pieces from child workers and their families in the Lake Volta region of Ghana, an area that is often targeted in anti-child labor campaigns. In the first publication of this series, they share why child labor can’t be abolished through force. To address it, we must attend to why children work in the first place.
A recent Guardian investigation uncovered information about laborers - including those working on World Cup-related projects - who were left with huge debts.
H&M signed an agreement to protect garment workers from violence. “The legally binding agreement that resulted is only the second of its kind in the fashion industry, and the first time a brand has ever signed up to an initiative to tackle gender-based violence in Asia’s garment industry.”
RightsCon, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age has announced it will be holding the summit online and across all time zones from June 6 to June 10, 2022. See the list of speakers and register to attend.
Global Labor Justice - International Labor Rights Forum has filed a lawsuit against a major tuna company, stating their claims of ‘Fair and Safe’ fishing practices constitute false advertising.
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