Take a hard look at your supply chains, accept its realities, and then work tirelessly to put an end to forced and child labour, said experts at a recent event on human rights.
This year's Responsible Business Forum will move beyond dialogue to focus on solutions and commitments that will help achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
Melissa Shapiro and Hilal Elver –
The story of our food is much more than a combination of nutritional values, costs, and tastes; it is also a tale of globalization, poverty, and exploitation. If we consider how little has been done to protect the world’s agricultural workforce, what we eat should make us feel sick.
Francis Vergunst –
Heatwaves have been linked with higher rates of hospital admissions for self-harm and suicides. What happens when hotter weather becomes the norm?
William Lacy Swing and Erik Solheim –
Global efforts to fight climate change must go hand-in-hand with securing rights for migrants, write United Nations Environment Programme's Erik Solheim and International Organisation for Migration's William Lacy.
To solve the global refugee crisis, it's time to begin allocating more funding to peace-keeping and building stronger societies, writes OECD's Jorge Moreira da Silva.
Climate change could displace 1 billion people by 2050. Amnesty International's secretary general-designate Kumi Naidoo examines what on-going discussions on the Global Compact on Refugees could mean for refugees.
