SDG 8.8: Protect Labour Rights and Promote Safe Working Environments

“Museums and cultural heritage sites are powerful assets for local development. They can inspire creativity, boost cultural diversity, help regenerate local economies, attract visitors and bring revenues. There is also increasing evidence that they can contribute to social cohesion, civic engagement...

To assist countries and local governments in monitoring and reviewing progress and challenges in the implementation of the Sendai Framework.

To enable the development of a local disaster risk reduction strategy (resilience action plans).

“EEP Africa, in partnership with CLASP, has compiled a set of resources to support companies overcome many of the barriers to e-waste management and recycling in East and Southern Africa. In this toolkit, project developers will find best practices for off-grid solar e-waste management, resources on...

“Fair Museum Jobs is a grassroots, collective movement. Our objective is to establish a better standard (“The Manifesto”) for museum job recruitment that is based on the principles of fairness, transparency, equity and inclusivity. We believe recruitment based on these principles is fundamental to...

“As world tourism begins recovering from the coronavirus crisis, the Future of Tourism Coalition shares a global mission: to place destination needs at the center of tourism’s new future.

We invite you to be a part of this movement.

Decades of unfettered growth in travel have put the world’s...

“As a fundamental frame of reference for responsible and sustainable tourism, the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (GCET) is a comprehensive set of principles designed to guide key-players in tourism development. Addressed to governments, the travel industry, communities and tourists alike, it aims...

“The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) Criteria were created to provide a common understanding throughout the world of “sustainable tourism”, and are the minimum that any tourism business should aspire to reach. They are organized around four main themes: effective sustainability planning...

“The ICC Green Economy Roadmap represents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary effort to frame the concept of ‘green economy’ and promote a more common understanding… The ICC Green Economy Roadmap is a forward-looking document meant to serve as a reference document for current and future actions...

“For museum managers a day to day health and safety concern is the assessment and management of risks relating to visitors and their interaction with the museum’s building, events and activities. The prevalence of dealing with related matters means that they become part of the management routine...

“Post-disaster recovery processes are often centrally planned and implemented, and they sometimes follow a top-down approach that does not engage affected communities in their own recovery process. Given that post-disaster contexts are particularly difficult environments that can cause large-scale...

“What is the Human Rights Guide to the SDGs?

This Guide illustrates the human rights anchorage of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by making concrete links between the 169 targets and the relevant range of:

• International and regional human rights instruments
• International labour...

“Moving Board Diversity from a ‘Problem to Solve’ to ‘Something to Practice.’ Staff and Board Members Weigh in on Common Hurdles and How to Overcome Them.

From #OscarsSoWhite to #parityraid, discussions of who is represented on our stages and our walls, within our organizations, on our boards...