We’ve been assessing corporate impacts on human rights (“conducting HRIAs”) for six years. In that time, we’ve watched corporate projects respond to an incredible range of contextual changes, from the deaths of presidents to the loss of global aid, from market shocks to mass protests. What has become clear is that human rights conditions aren’t stable.

This isn’t, in itself, a particularly novel notion. But for companies, it has some real, on-the-ground meaning.

We wrote about the implications for companies operating in changeable contexts in the Environmental Impact Assessment Review — you can find that article here (subscription).

Hopefully our next article will be open-source, so readers won’t need an institutional log-in to see it.

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