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This Way Up: Unpacking human rights for business is the first podcast from Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Over the course of each mini-series, we will outline and interrogate the latest issues related to business and human rights, bringing together diverse expertise from front-line activists, civil society, companies, investors and academia. The aim? To figure out together which way is "up" - the actions we must take to ensure continually improving corporate respect for human rights. 
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This Way Up: Unpacking human rights for business

This Way Up: Unpacking human rights for business
Business
25 episodes
World Benchmarking Alliance at UN Business and Human Rights Forum
More than 60% of companies assessed by the World Benchmarking Alliance are improving their human rights practices, but there’s still a long way to go. Live from #UNForumBHR, Namit Agarwal spells out what he believes companies and governments must do next.
1m • Nov 29, 2024
1m
Effective implementation of a just transition - UN Business and Human Rights Forum
“We need more implementation to make sure that what’s already there can help us get somewhere.” A positive perspective from Mutuso Dhliwayo, Executive Director at Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association on the huge difference that effective implementation of pre-existing regulations and frameworks could make towards a just transition.
1m • Nov 28, 2024
1m
Putting workers at the centre of the just transition - live from UN Business and Human Rights Forum
“There is not a just transition if you don’t bring workers into the negotiations from the beginning.” Live from #UNForumBHR (https://x.com/hashtag/UNForumBHR?src=hashtag_click) 🎧, ITUC Co-Director Diana Junquera tells us why governments and companies must take responsibility and connect with workers in the just transition process.
1m • Nov 27, 2024
1m
The role of investors and governments in the just transition - live from UN Business and Human Rights Forum
How should investors continue to press their portfolio companies to engage with just transition issues, and what role do governments have to play in a shifting and uncertain future environment? Fascinating insight from Chavi Keeney Nana at the Interfaith Centre on Corporate Responsibility live from #UNForumBHR. (https://x.com/hashtag/UNForumBHR?src=hashtag_click)
2m • Nov 27, 2024
2m
Female workers in Bangladesh and the just transition - live from UN Business and Human Rights Forum
As female workers in Bangladesh are increasingly uprooted from traditional agricultural work to industrial jobs, worker involvement in how the just transition unfolds will be essential, as Sunzida Sultana from Karmojibi Nari tells us at #UNForumBHR.
1m • Nov 27, 2024
1m
“Adaptation is such a key part for the Global South, and within that adaptation it’s really about the green industrialisation.”
Fascinating perspective from Kudakwashe Manjonjo at Power Shift Africa at COP29 on how financing green industrialisation won’t just support the world’s action on climate change, but if done properly could also help 1.3 billion people in Africa move out of energy poverty.
2m • Nov 18, 2024
2m
Live from COP29: “When we talk of finance, we talk of accountability.”
A must-listen interview from #COP29 with Joan Carling, Executive Director of The Indigenous Peoples Rights International, as she explains why human rights due diligence and centring the rights of Indigenous Peoples must at the centre of any conversation around the just transition.
4m • Nov 15, 2024
4m
Jennifer Krill on Indigenous rights and transition minerals
Earthworks Executive Director <Jennifer Krill responds to recommendations laid out by the UN Secretary General on respect for Indigenous rights relating to transition minerals, and looks at how this momentum must be supported by the climate movement and UN member states alike as we move towards COP30 in Brazil.
2m • Nov 15, 2024
2m
For this transition to be just, we have to focus and centre the rights of people and the planet.
Talking live from #COP29 sessions happening today on transitional minerals and mining standards, Indigenous rights advocate Bryan Bixcul from SIRGE Coalition tells us why the words remain the same from global companies, but we are yet to see the necessary actions to back them up.
2m • Nov 15, 2024
2m
Michel Forst on human rights defenders at COP29
In the latest in our series of civil society interviews from #COP29, we spoke with the UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders Michel Forst on what he’s hearing from human rights defenders who have come under threat from companies operating overseas, and how his mandate can help to protect those defenders.
1m • Nov 14, 2024
1m
Suneeta Kaimal at COP29 on transition minerals
In just a few years, transition minerals have moved firmly into the spotlight, and as we report live from #COP29 - and look ahead to COP30 - Suneeta Kamal, President and CEO of Natural Resources Governance Institute, tells us why this is an exciting inflection point for the conversation.
1m • Nov 14, 2024
1m
Monitoring the influence of fossil fuel companies at COP29
Who’s attending #COP29 really matters - and tracking the attempted influence of fossil fuel companies on the debate is hugely important for organisations like the Union of Concerned Scientists. Live from Baku on 13 November 2024, we spoke to Climate Accountability Campaign Director Kathy Mulvey about monitoring the fossil fuel industry and how to build capacity among climate science experts.
2m • Nov 13, 2024
2m
What are the Indigenous movement's aspirations for COP29?
“Climate finance can become the next assault for Indigenous Peoples if it is not directly supporting their efforts.” We spoke to Cristina Coc, a Mayan Q'eqchi leader and Advocacy and Policy Coordinator at Indigenous Peoples Rights International at #COP29 to ask her about the aspirations for the Indigenous movement from this latest round of hugely important conversations and negotiations.
2m • Nov 12, 2024
2m
COP29: why the just transition must be fair in order to be fast
LIVE from COP29! 🎧 Hear our Executive Director Phil Bloomer set the scene for this week’s conference in Baku, as he discusses why human rights is an essential precondition for climate action, and why a just transition to clean energy must be a fair one if it is to be fast.
2m • Nov 12, 2024
2m
Bridging the human rights gap in ESG investing: Private equity
How can we advance the human rights agenda in private equity? For this special episode from BHRRC and BSR, Áine Clarke is joined by Paloma Muñoz Quick from BSR, author and corporate accountability advocate Benjamin Cokelet, and Michael Musuraca, Strategic Advisor on ESG and Labour at Blue Wolf Capital.
42m • Oct 28, 2022
42m
Cost of Clean Energy: Damming Consequences
How much do we need the energy we produce? How can we change our energy systems—from the bottom up—to better serve all sections of society? The global push for the energy transition cannot mean uprooting communities and cutting off water access. We’re joined by Gregory Thomas of the National Heritage Institute and Dr. Noah Kittner from the University of North Carolina for a discussion on exampl...
43m • Sep 27, 2022
43m
Cost of Clean Energy: The Clean Green Machine
While hydropower has successfully provided significant amounts of power around the world and played a important role in meeting the intermittency challenge of solar and wind, it is not a purely clean and green source of energy. Dr. Noah Kittner and climate scientist Ilissa Ocko explore the costs of hydropower including loss of food sources for local communities affected by dams, and increased m...
36m • Sep 14, 2022
36m
Cost of Clean Energy: New Frontiers
Proposed alternatives to traditional land mining include space mining, deep sea and urban mining. The feasibility of space mining in the near enough future for the energy transition is unlikely, so scientists are giving more attention to deep sea mining. Helen Rosenbaum from the Deep Sea Mining Campaign and Prime Minister of the Cook Islands Mike Brown shed light on social risks and logistical ...
40m • Sep 07, 2022
40m
Cost of Clean Energy: Channels of Justice
This episode explores the capacity for communities to hold companies accountable when their rights are violated by transition mineral mining. Helen Rosenbaum from the Deep Sea Mining Campaign and Manson Gwanyanya, Researcher & Representative for Southern & Anglophone West Africa at the Resource Centre, discuss how examples from the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea and the Konkola Copper Mine in...
40m • Aug 31, 2022
40m
Cost of Clean Energy: Conflict Minerals
Over the past decade, scientists and policy makers have noted how the climate crisis will exacerbate social, environmental and economic factors which increase the risk of conflict – particularly for the countries and regions most vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis. This episode poses an important question – will the measures we take to tackle the climate crisis drive conflict? And...
31m • Aug 22, 2022
31m
Cost of Clean Energy: Mine for Victory
Reducing the world’s carbon footprint is no simple task, and while the need for a transition to renewable energy is urgent, the cost of extraction of transition minerals cannot be ignored. Human rights abuses are widespread in the growing extractives sector, alongside significant environmental damages. The first episode in our new series on the 'Cost of Clean Energy' tackles the social impacts ...
35m • Aug 10, 2022
35m
The UNGPs and a Just Recovery from Covid-19
The economic systems that have fuelled growth in the 21st century have done so, largely, at a grave cost to workers in the Global South. The Covid-19 pandemic brought deep-rooted drivers of inequality and exploitation into sharp relief, be it directly in companies failing to afford workers the protections necessary to continue to work without fear of transmission, or indirectly in those who fai...
55m • Jul 07, 2021
55m
The Next 10 Years of BHR: A Gender Lens
Gender discrimination and intersecting structures of marginalisation mean women and girls experience unique and disproportionate business-related human rights abuses. Recent work on the UNGPs acknowledges the structural gender barriers at play, but much still needs to be done by governments and businesses to translate policies into practices that protect and advance the rights of women and girl...
40m • Jun 30, 2021
40m
Investor Responsibility Under the UNGPs
Standards on investor responsibility for human rights have evolved substantially over the past decade. Guidance including the UNGPs and OECD guidelines expect investors to clearly state, identify and address how they are respecting human rights within, and how they are using their influence over companies to ensure access to remedy. But how has this translated into action, what can we learn fro...
45m • Jun 23, 2021
45m
Human Rights Due Diligence & the UNGPs
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) provide a globally agreed upon standard and framework for states and companies to prevent, address and remedy human rights abuses linked to business operations. Since their adoption ten years ago, the concept of human rights due diligence – which was first introduced by the UNGPs – has seen increasing uptake in policy frameworks, an...
42m • Jun 16, 2021
42m

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