Workers are powerful agents for social change, with a unique collective leverage to challenge injustice and drive reform. Their labour sustains economies, but workers’ voices are too often absent from the boardrooms in which decisions with profound consequences for their lives and livelihoods are made.

Find the latest news on labour rights issues globally, as well as our work to transform global supply chains by exposing labour rights abuses, strengthening corporate accountability, and advancing worker-centred solutions that promote decent work, a just transition and shared prosperity.

Fighting climate change is a human rights imperative, and renewable energies such as wind and solar are primary levers for action. But the energy transition is not only a technological challenge – it also requires addressing the risks of further entrenching existing inequalities and human rights abuses at every stage of renewable energy value chains. Find out what’s needed for a fast and fair energy transition.

Technology’s ability to empower has been abused to enable mass surveillance, deepen inequality, exploit workers, suppress free speech and fuel conflict - all through business models that disregard human rights while enriching a powerful few. These harms disproportionately affect marginalised groups and the Global South. Explore our work to hold tech companies accountable and challenge the structures enabling these abuses.

Human rights defenders are at the forefront of creating a more equitable, sustainable and abundant world in which rights are protected, people and nature thrive, and just economies can flourish. Yet defenders across the globe face attacks related to their vital human rights work.

Corporate legal accountability considers the legal responsibility of companies for human rights abuses, including through legislation and strategic litigation. This hub provides latest news and resources to help advocates end corporate impunity for abuses and to enhance communities’ access to legal remedy.

Effective regulations are essential to drive corporate accountability for human rights abuses. This section draws together regulatory approaches from around the world, with a focus on UN instruments.