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While it’s hard for most of us to imagine the true difficulty that refugees experience, it’s easy to look the other way when the problem gets too close to home. But as a business, we see things differently.

Brands taking action for people and the planet grew 69% faster than the rest of our business last year. Now we’re committing that in the future, every Unilever brand will be a brand with purpose.

In Argentina, consumers throw away around 12 million plastic bottles every day and yet less than a quarter of these get recycled. Our Cif brand is helping to tackle that problem with the launch of a 100% recycled and recyclable PET bottle.

Dove and UNICEF join forces to educate 10 million more young people on self-esteem and body confidence, to help them fulfil their potential.

The gender gap is everywhere. How do we use data to find the best ways to close it – and unlock women's potential? We developed the Lean Data Gender Toolkit with our partner Acumen to help businesses, investors and others make gender-smart decisions. Here's what we've learnt.

Limited opportunities and social stigma can get in the way of fathers caring for their children. And new research conducted by Dove Men+Care and Promundo shows that paternity leave is vital for women's empowerment too.

Unpaid work is what keeps families and communities running. Women shoulder the burden unfairly – and as our new publication with Oxfam shows, this matters to business. We're inviting our peers and partners to share our insights – and calling for global action.

Until now, black plastic bottles have been impossible to mechanically detect and sort for recycling. But we’ve developed a way of doing it. And we’re making the technology and approach available to everybody.

Dove has launched an image library created and curated exclusively by women, female-identifying and non-binary individuals

Unilever’s Thomas Lingard explains why businesses and governments must work together for a zero-carbon future.

It’s estimated hotels in the developing world throw away 5 million bars of soap daily. Unilever Young Entrepreneur Awards finalist, Samir Lakhani, turns discarded bars into affordable Eco-Soaps that create jobs for local women and put good hygiene within the reach of everyone.

To mark the publication of our latest Sustainable Living Report, we look at just a few ways we’re innovating for impact.