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
Spring 2010
Tamara Straus
Human Rights Settling Up [Free!]

Wenfang Shi holds a bioscience degree from one of China’s top five medical schools and worked as an associate professor in immunology at two leading Chinese research universities. But after moving to the U.S. and applying for numerous jobs without getting an interview or even a callback, Shi felt demoralized. Enter Upwardly Global, a nonprofit that places skilled immigrants in jobs worthy of their talents.

Spring 2010
Meredith May
Arts, Culture, and Religion • Human Rights Airborne Peace

In Rwanda, Radio La Benevolencija uses soap operas to heal ethnic tensions

Winter 2010
Kavita Nandini Ramdas
Human Rights • Book Reviews Women Hold Both Sky and Solutions [Free!]

In Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a series of vignettes brings to life the struggles and courage of unforgettable women who are, as the book’s subtitle suggests, turning oppression into opportunity.

Winter 2010
Alana Conner
Human Rights • Nonprofit Management Research: Strong Women, Strong Sector
Fall 2009
Christopher J. Varady & Mila Gavrilova
Economic Development • Human Rights Microfinance for the Most Marginalized

How small loans are tipping the social scales for Roma people

Fall 2009
Alana Conner
Arts, Culture, and Religion • Human Rights Research: Why They Stayed
Summer 2009
Alana Conner
Human Rights Research: Color Blindness Is Shortsighted

Acknowledging employee diversity has its benefits.

Spring 2009
Alana Conner
Human Rights Research: Not Racing to Help

Racism may have played a role in the government’s delayed response to Katrina.

Winter 2009
Holly Burkhalter
Human Rights • Book Reviews An Unconscionable Business [Free!]

SEX TRAFFICKING: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by Siddharth Kara

Fall 2008
Anthony Ewing
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.

Page 1 of 3 pages  1 2 3 >