PARTNER HIGHLIGHTS
 

In May, the FIFA president was presented with a letter asking the federation to establish a remedy fund for workers and the families of workers who have suffered abuses during the construction of World Cup infrastructure. The letter was presented by a coalition including Equidem, BHRRC, Migrant-Rights.org, and Fair/Square along with other human rights, sports advocacy, and labor organizations. 

WHAT'S HAPPENING AT HU

HU recently announced a new organizational strategy, which provides greater clarity around our approach and helps us be in better service to our partners. Read the blog by HU Managing Partner, Srik Gopal, explaining how the strategy helps to clarify what key conditions we focus on, how we do our work, and how we seek to be in relationship with our grantees and partners.

One of HU’s Managing Directors, Melanie Greenberg, was featured on the The Horizons Project podcast, for a special episode focused on sensemaking as a practice for network leadership.

HU partnered with the U.S. Institute of Peace to host a panel discussion focused on the challenges and opportunities the field of peacebuilding faces in implementing the principles of JDEI (Justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). Read the recap for recommendations to negotiate these systemic challenges.

HU was mentioned in this blog by a network of foundation evaluation and learning directors for The Center for Effective Philanthropy. In response to this article on grantee reporting, the blog calls for “transformational change” that goes beyond shifting reporting requirements.

​​We’re hiring! We're looking for a Manager, Program Learning & Impact, Peacebuilding to bridge the gap between the Strategy, Learning & Impact function and the peacebuilding program team. We're also seeking a Senior Manager, Program Learning & Impact, Forced Labor & Human Trafficking who will bridge between HU’s core Strategy, Learning & Impact function and the Forced Labor & Human Trafficking program team.

OTHER NEWS & VIEWS
 

The International Labor Organization (ILO) has, for the first time, recognized the right to safe and healthy working conditions in its framework of fundamental principles and rights at work. 

Informed by youth-led primary research in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Kyrgyzstan, and the Western Balkans, the UN’s Thematic Review on Local Peacebuilding 2022 explores how local peacebuilding is conceptualized and approached, what factors enable or inhibit the effectiveness of local-level peacebuilding interventions, and how donors can better support local actors. 

Check out this new podcast from the Center for Strategic & International Studies’ (CSIS) Human Rights Initiative on U.S. and European strategies to tackle human rights in global supply chains.

The Guardian explores whether the landmark Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) agreement will improve worker conditions and access to justice for Dalit women.

Dozens of dialogues between Islamic militants and community leaders have been quietly taking place in central Mali since mid-2020. The New Humanitarian examines the negotiations taking place.

The Institute of Development Studies published a study that looks at media analyses of changes in international human trafficking routes from Nepal after 2015. 

More than 1,000 sacked garment workers who worked at a Victoria’s Secret factory have received a $8.3m settlement. The Guardian covers the recent victory of the #PayYourWorkers Campaign in Thailand.

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have conducted one of the first-ever worker-level surveys of conditions in the UK fishing industry, which interviewed crews from across the Asia-Pacific Seafood industry.

The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) published a firsthand account from a Ukrainian peacebuilder pleading for the support of local peacebuilding. Even in war, opportunities for peacebuilding still exist.