Valuing Respect: How Business Should Think About Human Rights: A Conversation with Caroline Rees of Shift

On this episode of Purpose, Inc, host Michael Young discusses the intersection between business and human rights with Caroline Rees, the President and Co-Founder of Shift. Shift is the leading center of expertise on the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights. Caroline is a leading voice and expert about the role of business in respecting human rights. They discuss the ways in which companies need to think about human rights and why there is often confusion surrounding them; why sustainability reports don’t always tell the full story; the disconnect between business models and sustainability and why they need to be reconnected; and how beginning with the most vulnerable populations is a necessity when planning for the interactions between people and businesses.

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