[1] The Center is directed by Michael Posner, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and board chair of the Fair Labor Association[2] and Paul M. Barrett, deputy director of the Center, and a former editor and reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek and The Wall Street Journal.
[8] Since 2017, the Center has focused on academic research and reporting around issues of technology and democracy, including online disinformation, social media content moderation policies, and Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.
[10] Working with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Diverse Asset Managers Initiative, the Center convened in 2018 representatives from 13 of the largest college and university endowments in the United States to develop best practices to identify and hire diverse firms, owned by women and minorities to manage university funds.
[15][16] The report centered on the garment industry in Bangladesh and was launched on the first anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse.
[27][28][29] This has been an ongoing human rights concern for construction projects such as 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and NYU’s portal campus New York University Abu Dhabi.
On the contrary, it found that conservative users often gain from online platforms’ algorithmic content amplification schemes.
[50][51][52] The Center seeks to increase respect for human rights in different sectors by participating in public debates[53] and convening meetings and events.