New Data Exposes Global Healthcare Funding Inequalities
World Health Day a Clarion Call to Improve Public Health Funding

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.
World Health Day a Clarion Call to Improve Public Health Funding
Prevent, Investigate Deaths; Compensate Families; Mandate Life Insurance
Engage Island Residents Most Affected by Climate Crisis
Prevent, Investigate Deaths; Compensate Families; Mandate Life Insurance
Engage Island Residents Most Affected by Climate Crisis
Regulation Needed to Guarantee Living Wages and Benefits, Decent Working Conditions
Strong Government Oversight of Mining Industry is Essential
Creating Process to Ban Sale of Products Made with Forced Labor in the EU
Human Rights Watch and Cornell Global Labor Institute (GLI)
Administration Should Promote Rights, Not Undermine Them
Punitive, Less Supportive Welfare System Will Harm Rights