
Economic Justice and Rights
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.
Videos
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Bangladesh: Social Audits Shortchange Workers
Shahidul Islam’s Killing Underscores Heightened Risks for Independent Unions
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In Sheep’s Clothing
United States’ Poorly Regulated Nonprofit Hospitals Undermine Health Care Access
News
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IMF: Austerity Loan Conditions Risk Undermining Rights
Compound Problems of Rising Inequality, Flawed Mitigation Efforts
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Governments Should Step Up on Public Health Care Spending
UN Summit an Opportunity to Commit to Equitable Financing of Right to Health
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Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in Advance of Adoption of List of Issues on Israel
88 (PSWG) Pre-Sessional Working Group
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Time to Align Financial Institutions With Human Rights
HRW Oral Statement - ID on the OHCHR Report on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and COVID-19 Recovery - HRC54
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New UN Guidance on Children’s Rights and the Environment
Protect Children from Effects of Climate Change, Other Environmental Crises
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An Opportunity to Embrace a Human Rights Economy
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Requires Aligning Financial Institutions with Human Rights
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Bangladesh: Social Audits Shortchange Workers
Shahidul Islam’s Killing Underscores Heightened Risks for Independent Unions
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UK: Children and Families Seeking Asylum Face Dire Conditions
Serious Impacts on Physical, Mental Health, Education Access
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A Victory for Labor Rights and Transparency in Georgia
Identity of Rights-Abusing Employers Will Remain Public
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IMF Should Help Pakistan Uphold Right to Electricity
Fund Universal Social Protection to Phase Out Subsidies