Why companies should care about recent attacks on human rights

From reproductive rights to LGBTQ rights, we’re seeing ‘an assault,’ say human rights advocates. Companies should recognize that they have skin in the game.

Last week, the Supreme Court took up a challenge to the racially gerrymandered congressional maps in South Carolina. It was the latest battle in what some activists see as an increasing attack on civil rights—and human rights—in the United States. “We’re seeing an assault on civil and human rights across the board on every possible subject,” Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City last month.

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