Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review is an award-winning magazine covering best strategies for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses. Published quarterly by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Social Innovation Articles: Human Rights

Date Author Category Title
Winter 2008
Jenik Radon, Margo Tatgenhorst Drakos, & Tarek Farouk Maassarani
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.

Winter 2008
Gerald F. Davis, Marina V.N. Whitman, & Mayer N. Zald
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.

Fall 2007
Catherine DiBenedetto
Human Rights • Book Reviews Review: Blessed Unrest [Free!]

The human spirit endures in grassroots activism.

Spring 2007
Catherine DiBenedetto
Human Rights • Social Entrepreneurship • Government the business of changing the world [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.

Winter 2007
Alana Conner Snibbe
Human Rights • Corporate Social Responsibility Diversity Training Doesn’t Work

How can companies hire and promote more women and minorities?

Fall 2006
John Laurenson
Arts, Culture, and Religion • Human Rights • Government The Oldest Profession

How a German nonprofit is repurposing sex workers’ skills.

Summer 2006
Beth Kampschror
Human Rights • Nonprofit Management • Government Balkan Boom to Bust

Vanishing NGOs in Bosnia leave lessons in their wake.

Spring 2006
Mark Dowie
Environment • Human Rights • Government It All Started Here

The Miwoks were exterminated from Yosemite Valley.

Fall 2005
Mark Macnamara
Human Rights • Government Imagining a Democracy

In Morocco, there are 33,000 NGOs, many of which are engaged in a massive struggle to bring a civil society to life, while avoiding the hazards of Middle East geopolitical tensions and the challenges of the country’s own recent history of egregious human rights violations. 

Spring 2005
SSIR editors
Human Rights • Social Entrepreneurship 15 Minutes with Aaron David Miller

President of Seeds of Peace.

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