Human Rights | Focus Areas | Sustainable Business Network and Advisory Services

Around the world, societal inequality, geopolitical conflict, and the mounting effects of climate change are placing increasing pressure on companies to ensure that human rights are respected throughout their value chains.

Companies that align their business practices with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are better equipped to prevent harm to workers and neighboring communities, reduce reputational and operational risk, meet international expectations and standards, comply with investor demands, and attract and retain talent.

BSR helps companies understand and act on these principles by strengthening their management of human rights risks, developing integrated sustainability strategies, and supporting collaborations to address the systemic causes of human rights harm.

How We Can Help

Adding Value to Your Business and Society

BSR’s Human Rights team can help you navigate the increasingly fragmented global human rights landscape, more effectively manage human rights risks, and address the systemic causes of human rights harm. Our advisory services can be scaled, paired, and tailored to meet your company’s unique needs.

Sample services include:

Human Rights Assessments

Strategy Design

Implementation Design and Support

Living Wage

Stakeholder and Rightsholder Engagement

Human Rights Due Diligence of Conflict-affected and High-risk Areas

Regulatory Preparedness

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Case Studies

Updating Scotiabank’s Human Rights Strategy

BSR worked with the Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) to refresh its Human Rights Assessment (HRA) and update its Human Rights Statement.

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Human Rights Team Leads

Jenny Vaughan

Managing Director, Human Rights and Inclusive Business, BSR

San Francisco

Managing Director, Human Rights and Inclusive Business, BSR

San Francisco

Jenny leads BSR’s human rights team and portfolio across consulting and collaboration. In addition to directing BSR’s Human Rights Working Group, Jenny leads human rights assessments and partners with companies to develop human rights strategies and stakeholder engagement plans. She works across industries with a focus on energy, technology, and conflict-affected and high-risk contexts.

Prior to joining BSR, Jenny worked at Mercy Corps for over a decade in field management and advisory roles to prevent and mitigate conflict, promote inclusive economic development, and build civil society capacity. As the organization’s first Peace and Governance Director in Myanmar and later as the Director of the Peace and Conflict technical advisory team, she designed and implemented programs to reduce violence, promote peace and development, and address critical and emerging threats like climate change, disruptive technology, and poor governance. She has experience in context analysis, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, project design and implementation, and strategic planning. Jenny has lived and worked in countries including Myanmar, Indonesia, Nepal, Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Cameroon.

Jenny holds a MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a BA in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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