Respectful, Equitable, and Inclusive Workplace
Description
Includes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI/EDI), or inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA), or justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI), or diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), and other acronyms; freedom from discrimination; freedom of opinion and expression; freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; right to privacy; respect for group rights (such as the rights of Indigenous Peoples); cultural leave; respect for protections for persons with disabilities, children, women and girls, persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities, migrant workers, LGTBQIA2S+, older workers, and other groups; and a workforce representative of broader society.
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Resources
Getting Started Guide
Respectful, Equitable, and Inclusive Workplaces: A Getting Started Guide
Companies need to take action on eliminating discrimination and make conscious efforts to ensure that their workforce feels respected and included within their organisation. Anchored in research, our Respectful, Equitable, and Inclusive Workplaces: A Getting Started Guide summarises our work in the EDI Leading Practices: A Guide for Companies and aims to support your company as it begins or revisits an inclusive workplace strategy. It helps build a foundational understanding of the issue and provides clarity on the work ahead.
Corporate Action and Disclosure
EDI Leading Practices: A Guide for Companies
Workplace equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) is a complex and rapidly evolving space, and increasingly, companies are interested in understanding how to meaningfully advance EDI in their organisations. To help them do so, we consulted EDI research and guidance, reviewed practices of over 100 companies, and sought input from practitioners across a range of industries and geographies. Our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Leading Practices Guide offers a comprehensive framework with practices, case studies, and resources to help organisations embed EDI into their strategy, structures, and culture.
Racial Equity
Racial Equity Tools
Racial Equity Tools has compiled a vast library of resources that can help you to understand and advance racial equity within your organisation. The library is arranged into four broad "themes," including fundamentals, such as core concepts, the history of racism and movements, data, and resources; planning that examines key issues, such as economic security and language justice; acting to find strategies and advocate for ending structural racism and advancing social change; and evaluating progress and results.
Corporate Racial Equity Tracker
Just Capital's Corporate Equity Tracker provides a way for people to easily access and view the racial equity commitments and actions taken by organisations. Once on the website, users will have the ability to sort their searches based on the company, industry, number of employees, or policies.
Gender and Sexuality
Women's Empowerment Principles
Established by the UN Global Compact and UN Women, The Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) serve as guidelines that will help your leaders, HR professionals, and change agents to promote gender equality and empowerment in the workplace. Adopting these principles involves six main stages: Consider, Sign, Activate, Engage, Sustain, and Report. Towards helping you understand and progress through these stages, the WEPs has created a comprehensive brochure that features tools, examples, insights, and other resources.
Respect for Group Rights
Reaching Further: ProtectDefenders.eu Annual Report
Human rights work remains a high-risk activity around the globe. Threats and violence against human rights defenders (HRD) have increased, as well as judicial harassment and criminalisation. This annual report from ProtectDefenders.eu explains the challenging contexts in which human rights defenders endeavour to build resilience in communities and the workplace. It explains the mechanisms and strategy that permeate ProtectDefenders.eu's work; highlights notable (and concerning) patterns of oppression, populism, and violence facing civil society; and highlights regional and national shifts impacting human rights defenders' initiatives. It also explains programmes in action that your business can support.
Other Resources
Women, Business and the Law 2026
This global benchmarking project measures how laws, regulations, and policies shape women’s economic opportunities and private sector development across 190 economies. Their interactive map allows you to explore data on legal frameworks, supportive frameworks, and enforcement perceptions at the economy level for ten topics relating to women's working lives, including safety, mobility, work, pay, marriage, childcare, entrepreneurship, assets, and pension. WBL also produces a comprehensive report, which highlights where legal gender gaps exist and persist; introduces new measurements to track global progress toward legal gender equality; and updates data for the aforementioned topics relevant for women’s participation in the economy. This resource will be especially helpful for change agents tasked with creating opportunities to support equity of economic opportunities for women, such as by designing job-focused interventions and driving or supporting private sector reform.
