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    Global Forum for Responsible Recruitment 2025

    23 May 2025

    Commentary
    Ending unethical recruitment fees: what’s holding back progress?

    Neill Wilkins | 13 February 2025

    Briefing
    Seafarers and Illegal Recruitment Fees: 2024 Insights

    Francesca Fairbairn | 26 September 2024

    News
    Research finds almost a third of seafarers have been asked to pay illegal recruitment fees

    26 September 2024

    Explainer
    What are employment and recruitment agencies?

    Carmen Pedraza | Neill Wilkins

    Commentary
    Recruitment fees are holding back sustainable development - how can this practice be stopped?

    Rakesh Ranjan | 20 October 2023

    Briefing
    Seafarers and Recruitment Fees 2023

    Francesca Fairbairn | 18 April 2023

    Explainer
    What are recruitment fees?
    Briefing
    Recruitment Fees

    4 May 2018

    Commentary
    Realising Ethical Recruitment by Remediating Worker-Paid Recruitment Fees

    Nikhil Eapen | 20 November 2017

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

    Haley St. Dennis | Reema Nanavaty | 25 November 2025

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    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

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    Are business practices intensifying water scarcity?

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

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    What key moments have shaped corporate responsibility?

    Salil Tripathi | Anita Ramasastry | 14 August 2025

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    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

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    Human rights in the fishing industry: what are the pressing risks?

    Francesca Fairbairn | Ian Urbina | 25 June 2025

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    Collie’s just transition: a blueprint for ​the world’s eight million coal workers?

    Haley St. Dennis | Darcy Gunning

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    Just transition - how can theory become reality?

    John Morrison | Haley St. Dennis | 22 May 2025

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    Dialogue Insights: Understanding the Costs of Green Conflict

    Amir Richani | Haley St. Dennis | 17 June 2025

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    IHRB at the UN Business and Human Rights Forum 2025

    17 November 2025