Iraqis with Disabilities Excluded from Jobs
Persistent Failure to Ensure Right to Work; Quotas Unfilled
The Economic Justice and Rights Division works to build just economies based on respect for human rights. We investigate how the global economic system both drives inequality that undermines human rights and enables private actors to harm communities, workers, and the environment. Our work is driven by rigorous, thorough, and objective investigations. The Poverty and Inequality program exposes policies and practices that concentrate wealth in private hands at the expense of public well-being, challenging corruption, deregulation, privatization, and the dismantling and underfunding of tax-funded systems of social protection. Our Corporate Accountability program works to ensure that products and services are free from abuse or exploitation by holding businesses accountable for the human rights impacts of their operations, investments, and supply chains. Our work illuminates opaque and diffuse global supply chains and investment flows that obscure involvement in human rights abuses—from forced labor to environmental destruction—and advocates for stronger regulation of industries at home and abroad.
June 4, 2024
May 27, 2024
Persistent Failure to Ensure Right to Work; Quotas Unfilled
Pandemic Data Reveals Threats, Opportunities to Improve Systems
New Chapter for Corporate Accountability; Enforcement Key to Success
End of Affordable Connectivity Program Would Exacerbate Digital Divide
Government Represses Peaceful Protests, Prosecutes Environmental Activists
Countries Should Prioritize Economic Justice, Healthy Environment
Extending Universal Child Grant Program Would Enhance Social Protection, Strengthen Country’s Future
Slow Progress 23 Years After Landmark Abuja Declaration
Positive Step for Corporate Accountability; EU Council Vote Still Needed