Global Seafood Supply Chains: Advocacy for Fishers’ Rights and Fair Competition on the Ocean Thursday, May 15, 2025 An expert discussion on trends in fisher organizing in seafood supply chains and how government policies can help stem unfair competition. Forced labor and illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing create unfair competition in the seafood industry,…
Learning With and From Grassroots Rights Defenders Monday, November 11, 2024 Panel and discussion: 17.00-18:30 Reception 18:30-19.30 Abramson Family Founders Room, SIS Building, American University ARC bridges research and grassroots perspectives to advance strategies to improve public and corporate accountability. One way it approaches this is to learn with and from grassroots rights defenders, bolstering…
Our Land Was Like a Goldmine ARC and Accountability Counsel co-hosted an in-person panel event discussing how displaced peasants in Haiti used an international accountability mechanism to fight for remedy. The event launched Accountability Note 13, “After the Agreement: Implementing Remedy for Displacement in Northern Haiti” in Kreyol, Spanish, and English.
Disentangling Government Responses: How Do We Know When Accountability Work is Gaining Traction? Tuesday, April 23, 2024 Online and in-person at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Advocacy for public accountability aims to produce reactions from government officials or service providers. But it is not always clear to advocates how to interpret diverse…
Civil Society in National Education Policy in the Global South Thursday, April 18, 2024 The Accountability Research Center (ARC), as a Global Learning Partner of the Education Out Loud program, hosted a webinar to discuss the evolving role of civil society in national education policy in the Global South. An expert panel of scholars and…
From Exposé to Policy Solutions in Seafood Supply Chains Thursday, February 29, 2024 ARC, Pulitzer Center, and Washington College of Law co-hosted a film screening and panel discussion 29 February 2024. Steve Sapienza (Pulitzer Center) introduced Squid Fleet, a documentary from The Outlaw Ocean Project. It tells the story of fishers and the conditions they…