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Rights Holder Voices at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights — Back at the Margins?

Rights holders make up just 8% of the total number of speakers at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights over the past 6 years.

5 min readDec 6, 2023

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The Alley of the Flags of all member countries, UNO Geneva

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Rights Holder Voices at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights — Part 4: At the Center

This post, following the 11th UN Forum, updates previous data on rights holder speakers and reflects on what they had to say.

8 min readDec 13, 2022

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Rights Holder Voices at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights — Part 4: At the Center

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Rights Holder Voices at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights — Part 3: Inclusion

This post provides several rights holders’ perspectives on the Forum and concludes that the Forum is failing to be inclusive.

6 min readNov 2, 2022

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Three cloased conference room doors

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Rights Holder Voices at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights — Part 2

Our data on speakers at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights suggests that systemic disparities are sidelining rights holders.

6 min readOct 20, 2022

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Rights Holder Voices at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights — Part 2

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Rights Holder Voices at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

The UN Forum on Business and Human Rights needs an overhaul.

7 min readSep 27, 2022

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Rights Holder Voices at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

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Visions of Justice and Ending the Cognitive Empire

Human rights work is a praxis of possibility when it is based in learning from people directly impacted by systemic injustice.

4 min readFeb 9, 2022

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Graffiti of a boy with his hands raised in handcuffs and a cloud outline encircling his head representing ideas.

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Shauna Curphey

Portland’s Reckoning With Systemic Racism is Long Overdue

Portland’s past 50 years reflect a police force with a history of harassment and violence against African-Americans, surveillance of…

17 min readMay 18, 2021

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Portland’s Reckoning With Systemic Racism is Long Overdue

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Shauna Curphey

Explain Like I’m 14: A Memo to My Nephew on Why I Vote Democrat

I typically avoid talking about politics with family. Instead, I wrote this memo and am posting it here in case other people find it useful

8 min readApr 30, 2020

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Explain Like I’m 14: A Memo to My Nephew on Why I Vote Democrat

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Shauna Curphey

COVID-19: American Late Capitalism Confronts Business and Human Rights

In the United States, COVID-19 has thrown the brutality of late capitalism into sharp relief. Billionaires donate a tiny fraction of their…

4 min readApr 20, 2020

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COVID-19: American Late Capitalism Confronts Business and Human Rights

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Shauna Curphey

COVID-19: Advice and resources for Oregon workers and small businesses

Answers to questions on workplace safety, leave laws, unemployment benefits, the federal stimulus bill, and other issues.

11 min readMar 28, 2020

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COVID-19: Advice and resources for Oregon workers and small businesses

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Shauna Curphey

Shauna Curphey

Lawyer, Researcher and Advocate: Business and Human Rights; Corporate Accountability; Access to Justice | @shaunamc | www.justground.org

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