The backdrop to the current global human rights situation is cause for concern. According to our data, political risk is at the highest level we’ve seen in the last five years, driven by rising levels of civil unrest in populations reacting to socio-economic pressures that are, in turn, the result of inflamed geopolitical tensions, increases in armed conflict and ongoing financial instability. Add in the climate crisis and the impacts of weather-related events on economies, societies and food production and it’s difficult to reach any other conclusion than the world is facing a period of prolonged instability.
Our portfolio of 26 labour, civil and political rights indices reveals a very slight increase in risk for human rights globally over the last five years. However, we haven’t yet seen the impacts of the issues laid out above materialise to their full extent. This leaves the trajectory of human rights in a precarious place.
So Matthew Moshiri starts the executive summary of the Versik Maplecroft Human Rights Outlook 2023. The executive summary may be accessed HERE. The full Report may be accessed HERE.
Verisk Maplecroft is a global risk intelligence company, providing unparalleled insight into sustainability, resilience and ESG issues, underpinned by best-in-class geospatial data and analytics. My thoughts on the future of the work of this industry in CHina and along the Chinese Silk Roads may be accessed here: Due Diligence and Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Disjunctions: Liberal Democratic Markets-Compliance Based Legalities Versus Marxist-Leninist Constitution of Information as State Regulatory Property.
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