How can companies respect human rights while pursuing profits?

04/03/2025 27 min Episodio 156
How can companies respect human rights while pursuing profits?

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Episode Synopsis

The adoption of the UNGPs in 2011 was a seminal moment and acknowledgement of the influence of business on people’s rights.

In the years that have passed since then, what have we learned about whether and how companies can respect human rights while pursuing profits?

To help answer this question IHRB’s CEO, John Morrison, speaks to Mike Posner, a human rights lawyer, former Assistant Secretary of State under Hilary Clinton, and founder of the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University.

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