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Collaborating & innovating for change
Protest on streets for equal rights
How to innovate human rights for the next generation

What part should business play in championing human rights? What fresh challenges does the digital economy bring? Marcela Manubens, Unilever’s VP for Integrated Social Sustainability, highlights four areas where innovation is key.
4minute read time
Collaborating & innovating for change
Hive Foods Innovation Centre. At our new, state-of-the-art innovation hub, we will collaborate and co-create to turn bright ideas into the healthy, sustainable foods of the future.
06/12/2019 3minute read time
Want to know what you’ll be having for dinner tomorrow?
We have opened a state-of-the-art innovation hub where we will turn ideas into healthy, sustainable foods of the future
Protecting The Natural World
World Soil Day
04/12/2019 LLong Read
You could argue that soil is more valuable than gold
Healthy soil is essential to grow healthy crops. This is why we’re helping to protect and regenerate soils for future generations of farmers.
Equality For All
People having a discussion
03/12/2019 3minute read time
Recognising ability, empowering through accessibility
Four ways we’re working to include people with disabilities in our business
Collaborating & innovating for change
SERIES: How to be a Futuremaker
Unilever pioneers share their experience of doing business with purpose
Tracy with "growing roots" t-shirt
07/01/2019 2minute read time
How Tracy created a snack brand that’s funding urban farms
How good allies, an alert antenna and awareness of stakeholder needs unlocked resources to make Growing Roots a reality
Cristine Lu
07/01/2019 2minute read time
How Cristine’s recycled bottle is helping tackle plastic waste
Showing others the value of sustainability helped Cristine Lu build a business case for change
Sonika beauty
07/01/2019 2minute read time
How Sonika launched a purposeful beauty brand – fast
Lean innovation and a ‘golden week’ of decision-making helped Sonika Malhotra bring Love Beauty and Planet to life
Jay and Ben&Jerrys
07/01/2019 2minute read time
How Jay helped ice cream fans make marriage equality happen
Sharing Ben & Jerry's values and engaging with experts helped Jay build a community ready to take action
Jane Wurwand
08/01/2019 2minute read time
How Jane Wurwand turned $14,000 into a global skincare business
Resilience and seeing challenge as opportunity helped Jane build the US’s first salon professional skincare brand
Collaborating & innovating for change
Emmanuel Emodek
29/11/2019 LLong Read
The techophobe turned award-winning entrepreneur
A few years ago Emmanuel Emodek lost everything. But now his bright idea is helping thousands to manage their small firms and thrive.
Collaborating & innovating for change
Logistics manager by refrigerated truck, which only uses clean cold air to transport goods
27/11/2019 4minute read time
Greener logistics – the world has a lot further to travel
There’s no one silver bullet to achieve zero emissions, but tech, planning and alternative fuels are helping us get there
Good health & well-being
India schoolboy, Virendra, in his school yard. Access to a toilet at school and at home increased Virendra’s school attendance by 20%.
19/11/2019 3minute read time
Meet the sanitation superheroes who’ve made clean toilets their mission
Domestos has helped over 16 million people access good sanitation. Here are the stories of three of them.
Collaborating & innovating for change
People in a row holding their devices
14/11/2019 2minute read time
What do you really think about our products?
We want to know what you struggle with, what you’re hooked on, how you’d like things to change and where we can make a difference.
Sustainable Nutrition & Food Supply
Vegetarian butcher Jaap Korteweg
12/11/2019 5minute read time
We’ve invented the perfect burger for food rebels
Unilever has partnered with Burger King® to launch the meat-free Rebel Whopper® powered by The Vegetarian Butcher
Good health & well-being
Smiling child writing to-do list. Lipton’s new brand purpose aims to tackle hidden loneliness by asking you to add a ‘to who’ to your ‘to do’ list
05/11/2019 LLong Read
Why you should add a ‘to who’ to your ‘to do’ list
Loneliness can be as bad for you as smoking cigarettes. That’s why Lipton is encouraging people to make a new ‘to do’ list
Collaborating & innovating for change
Circular Economy
01/11/2018 LLong Read
Explainer: what is the circular economy?
Sustainable Nutrition & Food Supply
Bowl of food with chopsticks. As more and more people shift to flexitarian diets, Unilever is working with others to help develop plant-forward foods.
15/10/2019 LLong Read
Plant-based eating: creating a healthy planet through healthy diets
If the food system is to cope with population growth and climate change, then plant-based foods need to be high on the menu
Good health & well-being
Hands being washed under a tap. Lifebuoy’s school programme spreads hygiene messages in an engaging way to schoolchildren and their parents.
14/10/2019 3minute read time
A billion reasons to celebrate Global Handwashing Day
Through our Lifebuoy soap brand, we have helped 1 billion people around the world improve their handwashing habits.
Equality For All
Day of the girl DJ
11/10/2019 LLong Read
The brands helping girls dream bigger and be bolder
Two of our biggest beauty brands are supporting girls all over the world to find and fulfil their ambitions
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Futuremaker: Jane Wurwand

Futuremaker: Jane Wurwand

Futuremaker: Jay Tandan

Futuremaker: Jay Tandan

Futuremaker: Tracy Shepard-Rashkin

Futuremaker: Tracy Shepard-Rashkin

Futuremaker: Sonika Malhotra

Futuremaker: Sonika Malhotra

Futuremaker: Cristine Lu

Futuremaker: Cristine Lu

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