The intersection of business and human rights is a critical one for those of us working to address forced labor and human trafficking. In late 2021, at the United Nations Business and Human Rights Conference, the UN unveiled its roadmap for the next ten years of using the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) to help guide governments, businesses, advocates, workers, survivors of exploitation, and other stakeholders in making human rights a priority of the global economy

Read the UNGPs here
See the UN’s roadmap here

As our field enters a new decade of work, in the context of a global pandemic, we’ve gathered a collection of perspectives that offer a panoramic view of what the work looks like right now, where we’ve come in the last ten years, and some unique perspectives and lessons learned, which we must apply to our efforts to achieve our goals.