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Press Release 06 Feb 2020

Financial Crime Prevention Professionals Take Action Against Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking

A new strategic partnership to further mobilise financial sector stakeholders against modern slavery and human trafficking.

News 05 Feb 2020

How Technology Has Helped Labour Inspectors at Port In-Port Out Centres in Thailand

Interviewees say the Apprise tool helps them cast a wider net in the initial screening, as they look for cases of forced labour or human trafficking.

News 05 Feb 2020

UNU-CPR Welcomes Visiting Fellows From the Rights Lab

UNU-CPR's Modern Slavery Programme welcomes four Visiting Fellows from the Rights Lab.

News 03 Feb 2020

Stakeholders Gather to Discuss Rice Cultivation Practices in Ghana

UNU-INRA and Ghana Climate Innovation Centre present findings on project that focuses on improving the output of rice cultivation in Ghana.

News 20 Dec 2019

New Leadership at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research in Mid-2020

UNU-CPR welcomes Dr David Passarelli as Executive Director.

News 18 Dec 2019

Tackling Gender-Based Labour Exploitation of Migrant Workers in the Garment Industry through Tech

Researchers Francisca Sassetti and Dr. Hannah Thinyane discuss the issue in a blog post for EQUALS Global Partnership, on International Migrants Day.

News 07 Dec 2019

UNU Macau at the 11th ITU Kaleidoscope

Dr. Mamello Thinyane presented a paper on operationalising data justice in health informatics, which was nominated for the best paper award.

Press Release 03 Dec 2019

UNU-INRA Launches Report on Stranded Assets at COP25

Awareness of the threats and opportunities of stranded assets is low among African policymakers, a new UNU-INRA report finds.

News 29 Nov 2019

Assessing the State of Gender Digital Equality in Asia Pacific at the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+25 Review

Don Rodney Junio and Tarinee Youkhaw held a side event and exhibition at United Nations ESCAP.

News 15 Nov 2019

New Collaboration in the Global Effort To Fight Modern Slavery

UNU-CPR collaborates with the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab to work towards SDG target 8.7.

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