Development Blog
Three reasons why the UK National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights should prioritise gender
By Alexa Roscoe 03rd Sep 2013
This week the UK government takes the historic step of becoming one of the first institutions to make an official statement on how companies should operationalize the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, more commonly known as the…
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Bangladeshi women taking part in CARE's Strengthening Dairy Value Chains programme
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Balancing a short term gain of billions of dollars Versus irrecoverable environmental damage for generations to come: What should we do to save the Yasuní Innovative Climate Financing Scheme in Ecuadorean Amazon?
By Gianluca Nardi 23rd Aug 2013
A pledge of compensation made in 2010 to keep the Yasuní National Park untouched after the discovery of oil appears to have failed. What went wrong? Why couldn’t the Western governments raise the money? How do we change the rules…
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The Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. © CARE / Kate Ives 2007
Surprisingly robust and informative – my verdict on the International Finance Corporation (IFC) 2012 standards on environmental social sustainability from a conflict sensitivity perspective. Perhaps we should spend a bit more time learning from the sector many NGOs love to…
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Cocoa workers in Ghana whom CARE works with as part of its partnership with Mondelez. © CARE
Recent research from the World Bank and the LSE (don’t roll your eyeballs) shows that blogging about an academic article can lead to hundreds of new readers, when before there were only a handful. CARE has 60 years of experience…
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Human rights remains a topic that companies may reference perfunctorily in their codes of conduct, but few really seem to understand. In their defence, this is in part because, first, best practice standards on business and human rights are often…
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Women work a loom in Bangladesh. © CARE / Josh Estey 2008
Decent work for domestic workers: Will 100 million informal workers' rights finally be recognised?
By Tom Aston 31st Jul 2013
There are certain working conditions that most workers take for granted; established working hours, a minimum wage, paid annual leave, social security and maternity leave. Historically, domestic workers haven’t shared these basic rights but a major new piece of legislation…
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Machala Ecuador: domestic workers are often primary care givers to children. © CARE/Kathryn Richards
