Business & Human Rights at Yahoo!

Information and technology can transform lives, communities, and even political systems. We use information and technology to learn, to inform, to create and to connect. Expanding access to information and technology brings their power to more people, but it can also present complex challenges. At Yahoo!, our business, products, technology and operating footprint increasingly intersect with human rights issues around the world. We know that we, like other companies, have important obligations to the communities in which we operate. Yahoo! is committed to leading in the efforts to protect and promote free expression and privacy on the Internet, so in 2008, we launched the Yahoo! Business & Human Rights Program. The BHRP integrates human rights issues into the way we make business decisions and promotes privacy and free expression through concrete actions. To learn more about what we do, go to Our Initiatives.

The Yahoo! Business & Human Rights Program will host Change Your World DC 2012 at The Newseum in Washington, DC on Friday, May 18, 2012. CYW will focus on how women are using technology, the Internet and social media to create positive change in the world, with an emphasis on governance, policy, media for social change, technology for development and using social media to address women’s health and reproductive policy. Learn more about our Change Your World series here or follow us on Twitter @YahooBHRP #YahooCYW.