Research and Submissions

As Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting increasingly becomes a central mechanism for corporate transparency and stakeholder engagement, its effective-ness hinges on the breadth and depth of the issues it addresses, and this is...

How Trump’s Tariffs Are Undermining Gender Equality – and What Governments Can Do About It. Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs have imposed steep import taxes on countries whose exports rely heavily on female-dominated sectors. These...

New strategies are needed to help youth at risk From the evidence gathered over the last 20-30 years, professionals have seen the need for new strategies to help youth at risk: early intervention, provision...

Is Youth Crime Getting out of Hand? Each night, especially on weekends, commercial news carries images of young people and crime. But how bad is youth crime? And if so, what type of offences...

Preserving Jobs and Businesses in Challenging Times Mainstream criticism of capitalism continues as its unethical foundations are exposed in the unequal way wealth is distributed and the planet's ecosystems destroyed. Crucially since the Global...

It would seem that most people would prefer a society based on care rather than profit and yearn for work that serves their higher needs. We need to acknowledge that a hunger for respect,...

In 2015, Pope Francis, in fundamental connection between the environmental crisis and the current social crisis. To remind us that Laudato si’, underlined the ‘everything is interconnected, he called for a personal and community...

The recent displacement of over 700,000 ethnic Rohingyan refugees from a population of 1.1 million in Myanmar has been pronounced both a ‘human rights nightmare’ and the ‘world's fastest developing refugee emergency’. Although Rohingyan...

Though our world is studded by acts of violence and conflict from the Middle East to West Papua, from the Philippines to parts of Latin America and Sri Lanka to Africa, people remain convinced...

As mining companies engage in human rights abuses, land grabs, environmental destruction, community upheaval, loss of traditional life, militarisation, pollution of vital ecosystems, and vilification and killing of human rights defenders and activists, in...