Triple Edge Resources

DIHR framework document linking SDG implementation to human rights obligations — practical guidance for integrating human rights into development planning.

OHCHR info sheet on the intersection of sustainable development and human rights within the Secretary-General’s Call to Action framework.

Methodological guide to measuring human rights implementation — structural, process and outcome indicators across the treaty body framework.

OHCHR framework on business and human rights — covers the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and corporate due diligence obligations.

The Migrant Workers Convention — establishes rights of migrant workers and family members; relevant to the trafficking and labour exploitation cluster.

Full catalogue of ILO international labour standards — conventions, protocols and recommendations covering all aspects of work and employment.

The foundational ILO convention on forced labour — defines forced or compulsory labour and obliges ratifying states to suppress its use.

EC summary of the Istanbul Convention’s provisions and implementation framework.

The Istanbul Convention — most comprehensive European legal instrument on violence against women; binding on all CoE member states that have ratified.

The international bill of rights for women — establishes obligations for states to eliminate discrimination against women in all areas of public and private life.

Copenhagen Declaration and Programme of Action — commits governments to eradicating poverty, promoting full employment and fostering social integration.

The 2030 Agenda resolution — establishes the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets; the primary framework document for the SDG era.

The foundational international human rights instrument — 30 articles establishing civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

Foundational UN human rights document — reaffirms universality, indivisibility and interdependence of human rights; establishes the Vienna Programme of Action.

Academic analysis of why some countries become democratic and others don’t — framework for understanding the political economy of the post-Soviet transition.

Sachs argues for cooperative global economics to address poverty, climate and governance failures — framework document for the SDG architecture.

DG EMPL — responsible for EU employment policy, social inclusion, social dialogue and the European Social Fund. Publishes the Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) annual review.

Inside account of HSBC’s $1.9bn fine for laundering Mexican cartel money — documents why no banker was prosecuted and the UK Treasury’s intervention to prevent indictments.

Primary source transcript of the Thatcher Woman’s Own interview containing the notorious “no such thing as society” formulation — the ideological cornerstone of the Reagan-Thatcher deregulation era.

Opinion piece directly addressing the Reagan-Thatcher era shift — names Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand as ideological architects of the “greed is good” doctrine and interrogates its legacy.

RTE report on a record fine imposed on PricewaterhouseCoopers for audit failures — early documented case of Big Four regulatory sanction.

Guardian opinion piece arguing the Big Four’s structural conflicts of interest are irresolvable without nationalisation — published after Carillion collapse.

Blueprint for New Public Management — the intellectual framework behind the privatisation and outsourcing wave of the 1990s that hollowed Western public services.

Reich argues the market is not a natural phenomenon but a political construct — rules are written by those with power to benefit those with power.