Human Rights

Why businesses are nothing without strong human rights

A human rights activists demonstrates in Santiago, Chile.

Profit depends on a rule of law maintained by courageous campaigners. Image: Reuters/Ivan Alvarado

Bennett Freeman
Business Support for Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders, Bennett Freeman Associates LLC
Mauricio Lazala
Deputy Director, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Michael Ineichen
Programme director , International Service for Human Rights
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Protesters remember Berta Cáceres, an environmental and indigenous rights campaigner murdered in 2016.
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