The human and financial costs of geopolitical turbulence are rising sharply. The World Bank estimates that by 2030, two-thirds of the world’s poorest populations will live in countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence, while the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) reports a 40% increase in conflict between 2023 and 2020. Further, the 2021 Economic Value of Peace report indicates

Sam Jones & Rich Stazinski | Financial Times | March 11, 2024 During his interview with the FT (February 23), Mondelez chief executive Dirk Van de Put proclaimed that investors do not “morally care” if groups stay in Russia, reducing a diverse and engaged group of corporate stakeholders to an amoral monolith. Investors from the

Sam Jones, Rich Stazinski, and Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt (Investor Alliance for Human Rights) explore investor responses to the Russian war against Ukraine in Cambridge University’s Business and Human Rights Journal.  Following the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, many investors responded by unloading their Russian sovereign debt holdings. However, data from Bloomberg show that at the

Sam Jones & Richard Stazinski | Business & Human Rights Resource Centre | June 9, 2024 The ten year anniversary of the UNGPs comes at a time when investors are increasingly answering this clarion call, prioritizing human rights risks in conflict-affected areas like Myanmar, encouraging companies to prevent and mitigate human rights risks in these