Latest Labor rights Podcast Episodes
How should companies respond to snap military drafts?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - April 25, 2024 15:33 - 27 minutesWhen a state announces snap military conscription, how might companies respond to protect its employees? In this episode, IHRB’s Salil Tripathi and Vicky Bowman, explore the delicate balance companies must strike between compliance and resistance, and the creative strategies employed to protect...
How can companies respect the rights of Indigenous peoples impacted by renewable projects?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - April 17, 2024 16:34 - 26 minutesIn the rush for renewable energy, what are the impacts on Indigenous peoples? In this episode, IHRB’s Frances House sits down with two human rights defenders, Robie Halip from the Philippines and Prabindra Shakya from Nepal. Robie is the coordinator of The Indigenous Peoples Major Gro...
What are the major challenges for business when it comes to human rights in 2024?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - March 21, 2024 13:08 - 31 minutesIHRB’s Salil Tripathi sits down with renowned human rights scholar Usha Ramanathan to explore the balance of rights and responsibilities for both states and business. They discuss everything from data, surveillance and privacy, to climate change, agriculture - and even space. Usha offers a pro...
How can Ukraine start a green recovery in the midst of war?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - February 28, 2024 00:15 - 24 minutes‘Measuring the environmental effects of war breaks new ground’ Is it possible to rebuild Ukraine in a greener, fairer way and can this be done while the country is still immersed in war? Two years have now passed since Russia invaded Ukraine. Tens of thousands have been killed and the fighting...
Why must companies listen to indigenous communities?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - February 22, 2024 11:06 - 28 minutesThis episode discusses the impacts of corporate activity on fishing communities in Kerala, and the imperative for businesses to listen to the voices of indigenous communities and take proactive remedial action when things go wrong.
How can tech companies tackle misinformation and disinformation in this record election year?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - February 05, 2024 16:24 - 35 minutes2024 is a record year for elections. Across the globe nearly four billion people will be heading to the polls - half the world’s population. In the digital age, misinformation and disinformation can spread easily, with big implications for human rights. How can social media companies protect t...
What has the Universal Declaration of Human Rights meant for worker rights?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - December 06, 2023 05:45 - 24 minutes”The UDHR is the heart and soul of the United Nations” The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is clear that "all organs of society" need to respect human rights, and Eleanor Roosevelt spoke about making these rights a reality "on the farm, in the factory and in the office". As we m...
Is the ‘decoupling’ phenomenon just hot air or a human rights concern?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - November 28, 2023 12:56 - 37 minutesWhat is the phenomenon of ‘decoupling’ and how is it affecting human rights and business? IHRB’s Salil Tripathi, along with guests Vasuki Shastry and Isabel Hilton, unpack what ‘decoupling’ is, whether it’s just hot air, how it’s more than an economic phenomenon, and why human rights practitione...
Advancing people and planet agendas in the GCC - how can it be done?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - October 19, 2023 14:45 - 28 minutesHow do you transform GCC economies to a new system that’s both sustainable and takes into account the welfare of workers? IHRB’s Tamara Juburi discusses this question with Tariq Al Olaimy, as well as the challenges and opportunities in this process, and how the role of finance can incentivise thi...
Why do human rights matter when it comes to transition minerals?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - September 22, 2023 12:23 - 24 minutesThe Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the countries where these materials are mined. Often the mining of these commodities isn’t regulated, or regulation around this mining isn’t enforced. IHRB's Deborah Sagoe speaks to Francesca Fairbairn about her conversation with Dr Isokelo Munyuku Fa...
How can companies and governments ensure respect for human rights on the ocean?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - June 08, 2023 08:19 - 20 minutesHear from Ian Urbina, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has been reporting on environmental and human rights crimes on the high seas for many years. In this episode of Voices he talks to IHRB's Francesca Fairbairn about maritime human rights violations and what governments and companies c...
What is labour mobility and what impact do migrant workers have on the global economy?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - June 06, 2023 09:09 - 33 minutes‘We could build a future with shared prosperity’ Migration has become a highly politicised issue. Yet labour mobility is hugely important to the future health of the global economy. OECD countries are rapidly ageing and unfilled jobs cost the global economy 3 - 7 billion dollars every day. ...
What does one of the first corporate just transition strategies look like?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - May 15, 2023 08:19 - 34 minutesIn this episode of Voices, you will learn about one of the world’s first corporate just transition strategies from Rachel McEwan, Chief Sustainability Officer at energy company SSE, who talks with IHRB’s Haley St. Dennis about how SSE had to learn by doing.
What is the responsibility of business during armed conflict?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - May 11, 2023 11:44 - 15 minutesIn this episode of Voices, you’ll meet Mark Taylor, an expert in human rights and business, and senior program manager with the Clooney Foundation of Justice’s Docket Initiative. Mark talks with IHRB’s Salil Tripathi about the risk of corporate complicity when operating in zones of conflict, as w...
What is the built environment and how does it impact human rights in Lagos?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - May 04, 2023 13:10 - 19 minutesIn this episode of Voices you will hear from Kenny Aderogba from Spaces for Change - a non profit organisation based in Lagos, Nigeria. Kenny talks with IHRB’s Annabel Short about how her organisation is improving the city’s built environment. Lagos is a megacity, with a population of 24 millio...
Rana Plaza disaster: what are the lessons for human rights and business?
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - April 24, 2023 10:45 - 34 minutesApril 24 marks the ten-years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. What did we learn from this disaster about how businesses and governments can better protect the rights of workers? Salil and Sanchita examine the impacts of the disaster and consider the renewed action ne...
Constructive or Confrontational Dialogue? Engaging business in human rights, with Peter Frankental from Amnesty International UK
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - March 22, 2023 15:32 - 33 minutesIn this episode you’ll meet Peter Frankental, an expert in human rights and business, and the Economic Affairs Programme Director at Amnesty International UK. Having marked 25 years at Amnesty, Peter shares his reflections and lessons about attitudes of business towards human rights since the 90s.
Muetter Iliqud on the Use of Uyghur Forced Labour
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - December 15, 2022 12:58 - 18 minutesMuetter is a project analyst at the Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD), based in Norway. The UTJD is an ongoing project that focuses on the registration of the disappeared and extrajudicially interned Uyghurs in East Turkistan. The UTJD project was founded by the Norwegian Uyghur Commit...
Eli Friedman on the Urbanization of People
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - October 05, 2022 17:52 - 36 minutesChina has seen large-scale migration of workers from rural into urban areas. While the phenomenon of “left behind children” in rural areas has been widely reported, many children travel with their parents to cities. Given barriers to accessing public services that rest on a residency-status poli...
Adriano Nuvunga on Being an Anti-Corruption Human Rights Defender
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - September 13, 2022 17:32 - 11 minutesAdriano Nuvunga is a courageous anti-corruption activist from Mozambique who has played a leading role in building civil society institutions in Mozambique. At the Centre for Public Integrity, he raised many challenging questions about corruption in Mozambique. A keen critic of the extractive se...
Anton Mifsud-Bonnici on the Role of Business in Conflict
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - July 08, 2022 16:17 - 22 minutesAnton Mifsud-Bonnici is a Mediterranean-based independent business advocate. He specialises in ESG master strategy related to the low carbon energy transition. He is a thought leader on governance and an expert in stakeholder management and relationship building. He serves as a Commissioner over...
Egbert Wesselink on Corporate Crime and Sudan
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - June 23, 2022 16:01 - 14 minutesEgbert Wesselink is a historian by training and serves as Senior Advisor with PAX, the Dutch peace movement. Before joining PAX he worked at the Dutch parliament, as a teacher in a French Lycée d’État, as Human Rights officer with UNTAC, and as a Russia/Caucasus expert with the UNHCR. He has bee...
Mark Dickinson on the Updated Maritime Labour Convention
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - June 07, 2022 23:04 - 43 minutesMark Dickinson began his maritime career at age 16 and has been advocating for seafarers for several decades. He was instrumental in the original drafting of the Maritime Labour Convention, and leads the seafarers' representatives delegation at the STC in pushing for improvements to the conventi...
SO8E20 Spenser Bomholt Fain on the Digital Training Platform Quizrr
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - April 26, 2022 05:00 - 13 minutesIn this Voices Podcast Neill Wilkins from IHRB talks to Spenser Bomholt Fain, Global Programme Manager at Quizrr a digital training platform which is used in the supply chains of a growing number of International Brands. Jump-to points: (1:00) What is Quizrr? (3:34) How does Quizrr work? ...
SO8E19 Transparentem on Social Audit Deception
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - January 26, 2022 14:00 - 20 minutesJump-to: (00:45) The case of labour rights in the apparel industry (1:30) What is Transparentem? (2:50) What does the Transparentum report cover? (4:35) Audits beyond the apparel industry (7:00) Suppliers and their methods to conceal labour abuses (8:00) Why would workers lie during audit...
Saul Díaz on the Reintegration of Returning Migrants
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - November 24, 2021 07:00 - 29 minutesJump-to points 3:15 - Introduction of Nuevas Oportunidades 7:30 - The stigma against returned migrants in Central America - a historical approach 9:20 - The story of a returned migrant worker 15:30 - The importance of reintegrating returning migrants 20:06 - Working to fight discriminatio...
S08E18 Saul Díaz on the Reintegration of Returning Migrants
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - November 12, 2021 07:00 - 29 minutesIn this ongoing series, activists, business executives, government officials, lawyers, academics, and other experts from around the world share topical and current stories of businesses impacting people in their everyday lives. Developed by the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB), this...
On Utopias and the Climate Crisis with Danilo Palazzo
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - November 01, 2021 13:32 - 19 minutesIn this special episode of Voices, IHRB’s Haley St. Dennis and John Morrison unpack the concept and study of dystopian and utopian thinking throughout history, in search of guidance for how to think about and tackle the climate crisis. Feeding into the discussion is Dr. Danilo Palazzo, an academi...
S08E17 On Utopias and the Climate Crisis with Danilo Palazzo
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - November 01, 2021 13:32 - 19 minutesThe dystopian mood music surrounding the United Nations 26th annual climate change conference (COP26) is stark. Government and business leaders are not meeting the targets set in the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, and humanity is quickly running out of time to correct course. In this special epi...
S08E16 Archana Kotecha on Access to Remedy for Migrant Workers
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World - September 29, 2021 07:00 - 15 minutesIn this ongoing series, activists, business executives, government officials, lawyers, academics, and other experts from around the world share topical and current stories of businesses impacting people in their everyday lives. Developed by the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB), this...
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