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PARTNER HIGHLIGHTS

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KnowTheChain published “Forced Labour Risks, Remedy, and Changing Regulation,” a guide for investors ([link removed]) which details insufficient company efforts to address the risk of forced labor in supply chains or remediate workers when abuse occurs.

A recenthttps://twitter.com/MigrantRightsMigrant Rights investigation ([link removed]) uncovered a number of violations againsthttps://twitter.com/hashtag/migrantworkers?src=hashtag_clickmigrant workers who were sent home fromhttps://twitter.com/hashtag/Qatar?src=hashtag_clickQatar before their contracts ended and without proper notice, leaving many in greater financial debt.

Are you a journalist, fact checker, media professional, or media student interested in investigative journalism? The 2022 Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) ([link removed]) Annual Forum ([link removed]) will focus on achieving more accountability and promoting people’s right to access verified information wherever they are.

Research ([link removed]) from Rights CoLab shows how issues of DEI are–and aren't–being measured by investors, and discusses the challenge of ensuring whether a company that publicly commits to these values is living up to its word.

The new "Global Estimates of Modern Slavery" report ([link removed]) by Walk Free, the International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration estimates that 27.6 million people worldwide now work under conditions of forced labor, up from 24.9 million in 2016.

In a new report ([link removed]) from Equidem, migrant workers speak about human rights violations and labor exploitation they've faced working for World Cup partner hotels in Qatar.


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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT HU

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HU Managing Partner Srik Gopal recently joined the Business of Giving podcast ([link removed]) to discuss HU’s new organizational strategy. In this episode, Srik shares about the learning journey we've been on as an organization, including how we've approached learning from our successes, challenges and failures.

This episode ([link removed]) of the The Horizons Project podcast features HU’s Managing Director for Peacebuilding, Melanie Greenberg. Melanie shares about her approach to sensemaking as a practice for network leadership.

This August, HU’s peacebuilding team brought together our partners in Colombia who are working to build peace in their communities and their country. Check out snapshots from the convening ([link removed]) , where we gathered for learning, exchange and relationship building.


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OTHER NEWS & VIEWS

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This article ([link removed]) from The New Humanitarian explores how impartiality in humanitarian aid fails to address structural drivers of conflict in South Sudan and other areas affected by conflict.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Fair Food Program announced ([link removed]) a collaboration with the International Transport Workers Federation and the University of Nottingham Rights Lab to identify and combat human rights violations on commercial fishing vessels. Using the Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) model, they will build and launch a pilot program to "empower workers to serve as frontline monitors of their own rights."

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) partnered with Bridge Youth and Women’s Empowerment (BYWE) to organize a three-day forum for women ([link removed]) in remote Aliamtoc, Lakes state. 50 women came together to speak about the challenges they faced, how the participation of women in the peace process is essential to the ongoing transitional period in South Sudan, and the success of the roadmap to achieve key benchmarks within the Revitalized Peace Agreement.

A recent Greenpeace investigation ([link removed]) finds suspected human rights abuse by the supplier of a major U.S. and Taiwanese seafood company.

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