Reports

REPORT: Reality Check: How to Protect Human Rights in the 3D Immersive Web

REPORT: Reality Check: How to Protect Human Rights in the 3D Immersive Web

Our latest report, “Reality Check: How to Protect Human Rights in the 3D Immersive Web,” explains the risks to privacy and safety exacerbated by immersive technologies and recommends steps tech companies and the government can take to minimize those risks.

REPORT: Safeguarding AI: Addressing the Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence

REPORT: Safeguarding AI: Addressing the Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Our latest report, Safeguarding AI: Addressing the Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence, identifies he risks related to generative AI and recommends steps tech companies and the government can take to minimize those risks.

REPORT: Gaming the System: How Extremists Exploit Gaming Sites And What Can Be Done About It

REPORT: Gaming the System: How Extremists Exploit Gaming Sites And What Can Be Done About It

Our latest report, Gaming The System: How Extremists Exploit Gaming Sites And What Can Be Done To Counter Them, describes how extremist actors are exploiting online gaming sites to disseminate violent ideologies, network with like-minded people, and perpetrate real-world harm. The report recommends concrete steps the gaming and gaming-adjacent industries should take to counter such exploitation and avoid serious harm to users and society.

A Decade of Leading the Way on Business and Human Rights

A Decade of Leading the Way on Business and Human Rights

This year our Center celebrates its tenth anniversary, which is the first of its kind at a top business school. This brochure gives an overview of what we’ve accomplished in the past ten years and how we are charting the way forward for ethical business.

REPORT: A BROKEN PARTNERSHIP: HOW CLOTHING BRANDS EXPLOIT SUPPLIERS AND HARM WORKERS – AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT

REPORT: A BROKEN PARTNERSHIP: HOW CLOTHING BRANDS EXPLOIT SUPPLIERS AND HARM WORKERS – AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT

Our latest report on global supply chains and manufacturing coincides with the tenth anniversary of the tragic Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in 2013. In the decade since Rana Plaza, garment factory safety in Bangladesh has improved. But global apparel brands and retailers continue to put exploitative economic pressure on factory owners.

WHITE PAPER: Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Addressing Root Causes of Human Rights Abuses

WHITE PAPER:  Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Addressing Root Causes of Human Rights Abuses

Artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) is integral to the cobalt supply chain. Over 10% of the world’s cobalt is produced in artisanal mines and EV manufacturers and electronics companies need to support the formalization of ASM.

Research director Dorothée Baumann-Pauly published a white paper in collaboration with the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights which assesses ASM formalization projects. Her work highlights that the extraction from open pits and the integration of women are key success factors for addressing root causes of mine safety risks and child labor.

REPORT: Spreading The Big Lie: How Social Media Sites Have Amplified False Claims of U.S. Election Fraud

REPORT: Spreading The Big Lie: How Social Media Sites Have Amplified False Claims of U.S. Election Fraud

Our latest report, Spreading the Big Lie: How Social Media Sites Have Amplified False Claims of U.S. Election Fraud, explains how the major platforms are fueling distrust of elections and recommends reforms such as enhanced fact-checking and outside auditing.

REPORT: A Platform ‘Weaponized’: How YouTube Spreads Harmful Content – And What Can Be Done About It

REPORT: A Platform ‘Weaponized’: How YouTube Spreads Harmful Content – And What Can Be Done About It

Our latest paper, A Platform ‘Weaponized’: How YouTube Spreads Harmful Content – And What Can Be Done About It, sheds light on the least-well-understood major platform and offers recommendations for improvement.

REPORT: Still Struggling: Migrant Construction Workers In Qatar During the Pandemic

REPORT: Still Struggling: Migrant Construction Workers In Qatar During the Pandemic

Our latest report, Still Struggling: Migrant Construction Workers in Qatar During the Pandemic, shows that foreign laborers in Qatar and throughout the Middle East are denied basic labor protections.

REPORT: Making ESG Work: How investors can help improve low-wage labor and ease income inequality

REPORT: Making ESG Work: How investors can help improve low-wage labor and ease income inequality

Our October 2021 report, Making ESG Work: How investors can help improve low-wage labor and ease income inequality, explains how outsourcing has reshaped corporate workforces in ways that ESG assessments do not adequately capture and proposes a new approach to addressing this gap.

REPORT: Fueling the Fire: How Social Media Intensifies U.S. Political Polarization – And What Can Be Done About It

REPORT: Fueling the Fire: How Social Media Intensifies U.S. Political Polarization – And What Can Be Done About It

Our September 2021 report, Fueling the Fire: How Social Media intensifies U.S. Political Polarization -- And What We Can Do About It, explains that while the major tech platforms may not cause partisan hatred in the first instance, they do exacerbate the problem, which has dire consequences for our democracy.

REPORT: False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim That Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives

REPORT: False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim That Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives

Our latest report, False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives, debunks the myth that the political right is suppressed online and recommends that the platforms make their content moderation practices more transparent.

REPORT: Purchasing Power: How the U.S. Government Can Use Federal Procurement to Uphold Human Rights

REPORT: Purchasing Power: How the U.S. Government Can Use  Federal Procurement to Uphold Human Rights

Purchasing Power: How the U.S. Government Can Use Federal Procurement to Uphold Human Rights makes a series of recommendations to reform federal procurement from four high-risk sectors to ensure the human and labor rights of workers are protected when they make goods for the U.S. government.

REPORT: Regulating Social Media: The Fight Over Section 230 -- and Beyond

REPORT: Regulating Social Media: The Fight Over Section 230 -- and Beyond

Our report on Section 230 and regulation of social media companies, Regulating Social Media: The Fight Over Section 230--and Beyond, recommends amending the foundational law of the commercial internet and creating a Digital Regulatory Agency.

REPORT: Who Moderates the Social Media Giants? A Call to End Outsourcing

REPORT: Who Moderates the Social Media Giants? A Call to End Outsourcing

In June 2020, we shifted our focus to content moderation, publishing Who Moderates the Social Media Giants? A Call to End Outsourcing. This report recommends that Facebook and its rivals stop outsourcing responsibility for what gets removed from their platforms and instead embrace this vital function themselves.

REPORT: Disinformation and the 2020 Election: How the Social Media Industry Should Prepare

REPORT: Disinformation and the 2020 Election: How the Social Media Industry Should Prepare

In September 2019, we published Disinformation and the 2020 Election: How the Social Media Industry Should Prepare. This report looks at the types and sources of false content likely to surface during the next presidential campaign. It also provides recommendations to the major social media companies for responding to disinformation.

Report: Made in Ethiopia: Challenges in the Garment Industry's New Frontier

Report: Made in Ethiopia: Challenges in the Garment Industry's New Frontier

In May 2019, the Center published “Made in Ethiopia: Challenges in the Garment Industry's New Frontier,” an examination of how the global apparel industry operates in Ethiopia. The report features a set of nine recommendations for how the industry and the Ethiopian government, foreign manufacturers, and Western brands can address the human rights challenges created by the lowest wages in the entire global supply chain for clothing.

Report: Tackling Domestic Disinformation: What Social Media Companies Need To Do

Report: Tackling Domestic Disinformation: What Social Media Companies Need To Do

In early 2019, we released ”Tackling Domestic Disinformation: What Social Media Companies Need to Do”, a detailed look at false content generated in the U.S. that undermines democracy.

REPORT: Combating Russian Disinformation: The Case for Stepping Up the Fight Online

REPORT: Combating Russian Disinformation: The Case for Stepping Up the Fight Online

In July 2018 the Center published Combating Russian Disinformation: The Case for Stepping Up the Fight Online. The report provides a detailed examination of Russian disinformation campaigns and recommends a series of steps that industry and governments can take to overcome this and future digital threats to democracy.