Trade, Business and Human Rights: Why This Time It’s Different

Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, Director of the Geneva University Centre for Business and Human Rights and Research Director at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights joins Trade Splaining to discuss why focusing on human rights makes total business sense for companies, what its like splitting time between New York City and Switzerland and who wins between Lidl and Aldi.

In this episode we discuss:

• Respond to listener mail
• New developments on the judiciary front for businesses that violate human rights legislation
• Nike facing social media backlash in China over Xinjiang
• The Evergreen Ever Given, the Suez Canal and the plumbing of trade
• Return of the UN Word of the Day
• This week in local Geneva news