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Human Rights Day: The Role of Business in Respecting People and Their Rights

3BL Media

DS: When looking back at our sustainability journey that started in 2009, I remember human rights being embedded in SAP’s holistic understanding of sustainability from the beginning. It has been part of our objective to create positive economic, social, and environmental impact all along. What’s the reasoning and what’s new?

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Solar Sister is addressing gender equity, energy poverty, and climate change

Cisco CSR

Founded in 2009, Solar Sister is a nonprofit recipient of Cisco’s social impact grants that recruits, trains, mentors, and supports women entrepreneurs – Solar Sister Entrepreneurs (SSEs) – and supplies them with durable, affordable energy products. We have a program where entrepreneurs can upgrade to first-level smartphones.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Rose Stuckey Kirk, Senior Vice President, Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer, Verizon. She was executive producer of the 2017 documentary "Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America." . The idea was born during MacArthur’s three-year-long "journey of discovery" around the world from 2006 to 2009. . "If