In addition to strategic business research, advice and training for clients and partners, Empower specializes in four issues that represent extreme challenges now and in the future for human rights defenders and civil society organizations that ensure corporate accountability.
As unprecedented wealth transfer takes place worldwide, a concomitant capital shift from public to private markets is happening in real-time and right under our noses.
Beyond defending and demanding human rights and corporate accountability, together we must build democratic economies for all, not just an elite few.
We research the links between companies, governments, and organized crime in order to find the true beneficiaries and intellectual authors of grave human rights violations.
We research, monitor, and expose new threats to human rights posed by technology in the hands of companies and governments.