Lebanon: Rising Poverty, Hunger Amid Economic Crisis
Government and World Bank Should Invest in Rights-Based Social Protection

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.
January 31, 2023
January 19, 2023
Government and World Bank Should Invest in Rights-Based Social Protection
Why Social Audits Can’t Fix Labor Rights Abuses in Global Supply Chains
How US Underfunding Public Housing Harms Rights in New York, New Mexico, and Beyond
Some Positive Steps on Social Protection, Transparency
Germany wants certified companies to be exempted from liability for negligence in the EU supply chain law. But certifications themselves are problematic.
Submission to UN Cites Dire Conditions, Bureaucratic Barriers to Aid
DHS Announces New Temporary Protections for Workers Fighting Labor Abuse
Reject Efforts to Weaken Safeguards Against Tech-Driven Exploitation
Foreign Affairs and Aid Subcommittee on the Inquiry into Supporting Democracy in our Region
Policies against Street Vendors, Landless People, Begging Violate Rights