Ileena Roy* In the current neo-liberal world order, economies have become a lot more connected and part of highly complex global supply chains. This has linked, say, a small farmer (growing sugarcane) or a tea plantation worker in Assam with...

The Stock Exchange Board of India (SEBI) floated the new format of the Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting on 18th August. The regulator body has sought comments and feedback from stakeholders by 18th September 2020.  This is a...

Could the incorporation of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) principles in the lending practices of banks and financial institutions attract more foreign investments in India? In our introductory Fair Finance India Podcast episode, we...

- by Daniel Edwin, Director at OpenSpace* With Santosh Ganwar, Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment, proclaiming 2020 to be the ‘year of reforms’, India is all set to subsume 44 labour provisions [under the Minimum Wages Act (1948),...

Shreya Kaushik* A gas leak at the Visakhapatnam factory of LG Polymers India Pvt Ltd (LGPI) on May 7 killed thirteen people and exposed thousands of people living in nearby villages to toxic styrene fumes. The factory had opened in light of...

In its commitment towards the UNGP framework, India published the zero draft of its National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAP) almost a year ago. The draft is now under the final stages of extensive consultations with stakeholders...