Articles: Human Rights
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| Summer 2009 | Human Rights |
Research: Color Blindness Is Shortsighted
Acknowledging employee diversity has its benefits. |
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| Spring 2009 | Human Rights |
Research: Not Racing to Help
Racism may have played a role in the government’s delayed response to Katrina. |
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| Winter 2009 | Human Rights |
An Unconscionable Business
SEX TRAFFICKING: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by Siddharth Kara |
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| Fall 2008 | Human Rights • Corporate Social Responsibility |
Dropping the Ball
Why the Soccer Ball Project—one of the world’s first multistakeholder efforts to stop abuses of labor rights—is failing to protect workers in Pakistan. |
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| Fall 2008 | Human Rights • Healthcare |
Opening the Asylum Doors
THE INSANITY OFFENSE: How America’s Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens by E. Fuller Torrey |
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| Fall 2008 | Human Rights |
Beyond CSR
How companies can respect human rights. |
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| Fall 2008 | Human Rights • Government |
After Prison
Comprehensive reintegration programs will lower the U.S. recidivism rate. |
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| Winter 2008 | Human Rights • Corporate Social Responsibility |
Getting Human Rights Right
Corporations that violate human rights not only inflict suffering, but also hurt their bottom line. The authors suggest five principles that corporations can follow to improve their human rights footprint. |
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| Winter 2008 | Human Rights • Corporate Social Responsibility • Government |
The Responsibility Paradox [Free!]
Multinational corporations are in a quandary: Stakeholders are imposing higher standards than ever, but businesses are confused about what their global social responsibilities actually are. |
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| Fall 2007 | Human Rights |
Review: Blessed Unrest
The human spirit endures in grassroots activism. |
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| Spring 2007 | Human Rights • Nonprofit Management |
Policing the Police [Free!]
The traditional approach among human rights groups in Nigeria had been accusatory: publicize injustices or sue the government. But in January 1998, on the eve of democracy, an NGO called the CLEEN foundation set out to reform law enforcement from within. |
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| Summer 2006 | Human Rights • Nonprofit Management • Government |
Balkan Boom to Bust
Vanishing NGOs in Bosnia leave lessons in their wake. |
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| Spring 2006 | Environment • Human Rights • Government |
It All Started Here
The Miwoks were exterminated from Yosemite Valley. |
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| Spring 2006 | Environment • Human Rights • Philanthropy, Responsible Investing |
Bigger May Not Be Better
Does an organization’s size correlate with its effectiveness? |
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| Fall 2005 | Human Rights • Social Entrepreneurship • Corporate Social Responsibility |
The Myth of CSR [Free!]
As nice as it is to think that modern corporations can do well while also doing good, there are serious limitations that the market imposes on their CSR initiatives. In addition, the legal obligations of corporations to their shareholders further restrict CSR’s potential to help solve social and environmental problems. At some point, we should be asking ourselves whether or not we’ve been promoting a strategy more likely to lead to business as usual than to tackling the fundamental problems of our time. |
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