Dunstan Allison-Hope
BSR
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Past articles by Dunstan:
A Human Rights Assessment of Meta’s Expansion of End-to-End Encryption
Meta commissioned BSR to undertake a human rights assessment of extending end-to-end encryption across Meta’s messaging services. We share some of the assessment’s key points. → Read More
The stars are aligning for sustainable business
ESG is dominating discourse, and the profession is centering around these 5 frameworks. → Read More
A Post-COVID-19 Agenda for Sustainability Reporting
The world of sustainability reporting after COVID-19 will be very different than the world that preceded it. What should change? → Read More
Sustainability Reporting and Early Lessons from COVID-19
BSR has observed several trends emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic and compared them with best practices on reporting. We are sharing these insights here to assist company sustainability teams as they strive to keep stakeholders informed—despite, in many cases, the reality of limited time and diminished resources. → Read More
A Human Rights Review of the Facebook Oversight Board
Today, BSR is releasing a human rights review to inform the governance and operations of the Facebook Oversight Board so that it is consistent with human rights-based approaches, principles, standards, and methodologies. → Read More
Is Stakeholder Engagement the Key to Successful Community Standards?
Ongoing debates about leadership, governance, and regulation of social media are highly relevant to any stakeholder engagement discussion for platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. → Read More
Time’s Up: Women Should Be Front and Center of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence
Women are disproportionately vulnerable to negative human rights impacts. Our experience in conducting human rights due diligence and engaging with workers in factories, farms, and communities in a variety of regions has highlighted numerous examples of the ways in which women’s rights are violated. From harassment online in the technology industry to the undermining of reproductive rights, lack… → Read More
Supply Chain Sustainability in a Rapidly Changing World
We share our thoughts, based on our work with Telenor, on relevant global shifts transforming telecommunications supply chains and best practices for companies in the industry to improve supply chain sustainability in the future. → Read More
A New Transparency Challenge for Business and Human Rights
There is an urgent need to enhance disclosure practices across all industries that receive requests for data and assistance from law enforcement agencies. → Read More
Four Reflections on the Human Rights Implications of Artificial Intelligence
Human rights teams and decision-makers in companies across sectors will need to engage with the social, ethical, and human rights issues relating to the use of artificial intelligence in their respective industries. → Read More
Announcing a New Collaboration Using Tech to Combat Human Trafficking
A coalition of global technology companies, civil society organizations, and the UN have come together to launch “Tech Against Trafficking,” a collaborative effort to further support the eradication of forced labor and human trafficking. → Read More
Three Hot Debates in Sustainability Reporting Today
Throughout our recent discussions with sustainability reporting leaders, we were struck by sharply divided opinions on these three questions. → Read More
Redefining Sustainable Business: Management for a Rapidly Changing World
Drawing on BSR’s 25 years of experience working with companies and their stakeholders, from corporate headquarters to remote operations and sourcing locations, this report presents our view of how companies can transform their strategies, governance, and management so that they are fit for a disruptive world. It builds on interviews with 50 senior sustainability leaders at member companies and… → Read More
The Right to Privacy, 70 Years On
The challenges companies face to respect the human right to privacy are growing substantially. A business response to this challenge should contain these five elements. → Read More
Seven Things Every Company Should Know about Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Business
These considerations are essential for companies to factor into their AI strategies. → Read More
Children’s Rights Online: A Conversation with UNICEF
Children’s rights often feature prominently when BSR assesses the human rights impacts of information and communications technology (ICT) companies. Dunstan Allison-Hope spoke to Brian Keeley, editor of UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children report, the latest edition of which examines the perils and possibilities of digital technology and connectivity for children, about UNICEF’s work on this… → Read More
Can the GRI and SASB reporting frameworks be collaborative?
Tim Mohin, chief executive of GRI, and Jean Rogers, chair of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), about the dance between standards. → Read More
Remedy against the Machine
How can we ensure access to remedy when decisions are made by machines rather than humans? → Read More
The Sustainability Form 10-K: A Proposal
We're proposing an equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Form 10-K for sustainability reporting. Here's why. → Read More
Introducing the Sustainable Business Playbook
We are pleased to release a Playbook for Sustainable Business in the United States as a contribution to shape and support the actions that will ensure that the vision of a just and sustainable world becomes a reality. → Read More