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Immersive technologies powering the "metaverse" pose serious threats to consumer privacy and safety.

Online gaming companies, which boast more than three billion consumers globally, have been slow to counteract the exploitation of their sites by violent extremists and other bad actors.

In the absence of adequate tech industry self-regulation, government needs to extend more systematic oversight of companies like Meta, Google, TikTok, and X.

Digital products built with generative artificial intelligence hold great promise but also can facilitate fraud, disinformation campaigns, and cyberattacks.

We file friend-of-the-court (amicus) briefs in leading U.S. Supreme Court cases that bear on the effects of technology on democracy.

The Center is challenging investment practices that create barriers for women and people of color.

Sustainable investment can be revived as a meaningful way to express investor values, hold companies accountable for the harm they may cause, and reward greater corporate respect for labor and human rights.

Migrant workers are, in certain industries, the most vulnerable employees in global supply chains.

Addressing human rights risks in mining lays the foundation for a just transition from burning fossil fuel to relying on renewable energy.

The Center focuses on the responsibility of international business for the well-being of workers in global supply chains, particularly those in low-wage manufacturing.

We are taking the lead in forming an international network of business schools that include human rights in their curricula.

Academic conferences create opportunities to encourage and shape new research on business and human rights (BHR). We co-organize two annual BHR conferences and participate in many more.

Through academic articles, books, teaching cases, and research briefs, we are deepening the information available about the most pressing human rights issues facing business.