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Our Center at NYU Stern challenges and empowers companies and future business leaders to make practical progress on human rights.
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We explore ways to reduce harms associated with social media, artificial intelligence, online gaming, and 3D immersive platforms.
We encourage the financial sector to diversify its own ranks, while also reforming ESG practices to better assess corporate social performance and protect vulnerable stakeholders, especially workers in global supply chains.
We examine the impact of multinational companies on workers' rights in supply chains, outsourced manufacturing, and projects that rely on vulnerable migrant workers.
Through our research and teaching, development of teaching resources, and events for business scholars, we help prepare the next generation of leaders to address human rights responsibly.
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See allCovert Campaigns: Safeguarding Encrypted Messaging Platforms from Voter Manipulation
Our new report on encrypted messaging platforms reveals how political propagandists are exploiting these tools to manipulate voters globally, while offering recommendations for platforms, policymakers, and researchers to mitigate these threats without undermining end-to-end encryption.
‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’ How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence
As a volatile election nears, our report reveals that social media is consistently exploited to facilitate political intimidation and violence, and recommends crucial changes that social media companies and governments can implement to reduce these harms.
Reimagining Shareholder Advocacy on Environmental and Social Issues: The promise and pitfalls of ‘E&S stewardship’
Our most recent report on ESG written by Michael Goldhaber, highlights how shareholder advocacy ought to focus on achieving real-world impact for the environment and society, rather than settling for low-bar goals or non-binding promises.
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Donations sustain our work helping global businesses advance respect for human rights.
The Center’s practical, solutions-oriented model to advance human rights in business presents many possibilities for action that expand the realization of rights around the world. We ask for your financial support to help us achieve this ambitious agenda.