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    What the Catalonia model teaches business about the future of housing markets

    Haley St. Dennis | 2 December 2025

    Submission
    Submission: Response to consultation on Decent Homes Standards (UK)

    11 September 2025

    Commentary
    Investment must change to meet the world’s housing needs

    Giulio Ferrini | Julieta Perucca | 26 August 2025

    Commentary
    A house divided: the tension between the UK's new immigration rules, its climate and housing targets, and workers' rights

    Gordon Miller | 22 July 2025

    Commentary
    Getting smarter about smart cities

    Annabel Short | 11 July 2025

    Report
    Building Responsible Smart Cities: A Toolkit for Public and Private Sector Actors

    Salil Tripathi | Annabel Short | 11 July 2025

    Event
    Business, governments and rights: who gets to shape the future of cities?

    Online, Zoom

    2 Jul 2025

    Commentary
    The business of post-conflict reconstruction: risk and responsibility

    Giulio Ferrini | 30 April 2025

    News
    Pioneering Dignity by Design Framework relaunched as interactive digital tool
    Commentary
    Lessons from Grenfell: the imperative to build with dignity

    Giulio Ferrini | 2 October 2024

    Explainer
    What is ‘social value’ in the built environment?

    Alejandra Rivera | Annabel Short

    Podcast
    Preventing ‘Greenlash’: what can we learn from positive climate action?

    Barbara Steenbergen | Lionel Van Rillaer | Oluwafemi Joshua Ojo | Paola Cammilli | Giulio Ferrini | 24 July 2024

    VOICES Podcast

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    Podcast

    Financing a just transition in farming: Lessons from Brazil

    Haley St. Dennis | Isabel Britez | 9 March 2026

    Amazonian women during the 2020 mobilization for International Women's Day, demanding sovereignty over their ancestral lands.
    Podcast

    The biggest issues for business and human rights in 2026

    29 January 2026

    Podcast

    Catalonia’s housing revolution: where affordability meets sustainability

    Haley St. Dennis | Ainara Fernández | 17 December 2025

    Podcast

    Just transitions in the Gujarat desert: a signal of a cleaner, fairer future for informal workers

    Haley St. Dennis | Reema Nanavaty | 25 November 2025

    Podcast

    Looking back, looking forward - the future of human rights and business (Part 2)

    Brandee M. Butler | John Morrison | 19 November 2025

    Podcast

    Looking back, looking forward - lessons in human rights and business (Part 1)

    Brandee M. Butler | John Morrison | 28 October 2025

    Podcast

    Are seafarers’ rights in crisis?

    Ben Bailey | Father Stephen Thanapaul | Francesca Fairbairn | 25 September 2025

    Podcast

    Are business practices intensifying water scarcity?

    Salil Tripathi | Peter Waldman | Ravi Mariwala | 28 August 2025

    Podcast

    What key moments have shaped corporate responsibility?

    Salil Tripathi | Anita Ramasastry | 14 August 2025

    Podcast

    Human rights reporting - what’s the view from the ground amidst evolving EU regulation?

    Vicky Bowman | Giles Bolton | Natalie Grillon | Emily Casswell | 15 July 2025

    Spotify Apple YouTube

    Events

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    Save the date: Global Forum for Responsible Recruitment 2026
    Event summary

    Webinar - From COP30 to 2030: Lessons for Business from Just Transitions in Practice

    30 January 2026

    Speech

    Remarks from Vicky Bowman at the Ministerial Roundtable at the Future Minerals Forum, Riyadh

    Vicky Bowman | 15 January 2026

    Event summary

    Transition Tensions: Navigating Climate and Social Expectations

    8 December 2025