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October 28, 2026 by Julie Wokaty The Accountability Gap: Asset Managers and Excessive Executive Compensation

Category Description Examples Full Reporting Registered management investment companies, regardless of size. ETFs (except unit investment trusts), mutual funds, closed-end funds. Say-on-Pay Only Other institutional managers required to file Form 13F (generally $100M+ in qualifying securities). Hedge funds, banks, insurers, pension funds, endowments, family offices, wealth managers, broker-dealers, non-U.S. managers. No N-PX Requirement Entities not […]
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 October 28, 2026
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October 5, 2026 by Julie Wokaty The Impact of the Elimination of Rule 14a-8 on Institutions with Detailed Proxy Voting Policies

By Tim Smith, ICCR Senior Policy Director The SEC has advanced a proposal to eliminate the ability of shareowners to file shareholder proposals while continuing their traditional attacks on the proponents and the subject matter of the resolutions. None of the three Republican SEC Commissioners who voted for rescission have ever acknowledged examples of resolutions […]
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  • Shareholder Rights and SEC Policy
 October 5, 2026
September 25, 2026 by Julie Wokaty Swimming Together: Can Vessel Owners and Buyers Cooperate to Improve Conditions for Workers in Tuna Supply Chains?

By Chavi Keeney Nana, Director, Equitable Global Supply Chains, ICCR I recently returned from the third working group meeting for the Ethical Tuna Collaboration (ETC), which is designing a multistakeholder, market-based initiative to help address forced labor on tuna vessels. The ETC is convened by the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions, supported philanthropically by Walmart. […]
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  • Equitable Global Supply Chains
  • Responsible Contracting
 September 25, 2026
September 18, 2026 by Julie Wokaty When Shareholders Warn and Boards Say No: Shareholder Proposals as an Early Warning System for Corporate Risk, and the Cost of Ignoring Them

By Tim Smith, Senior Policy Advisor Much has been written about the significance of the $5 billion historic penalty and privacy reforms imposed by the FTC on Meta, but press surrounding the incident rarely references the fact that this risk was something shareholders had already warned management about through shareholder filings. In 2018, shareholders filed […]
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  • Shareholder Rights and SEC Policy
 September 18, 2026
June 25, 2026 by Julie Wokaty Global Platform Worker Power at the International Labour Conference

By Anousha P., Senior Program Associate, Global Platform Workers Solidarity Project (GPWSP) Across the world, a revolution has been unfolding in the world of work. Maybe you have noticed it when ordering food or hiring a nanny. If you use AI, you have benefited from the labor powering this revolution. This is platform (sometimes called […]
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  • Impacts of Digital Technology on Workers’ Rights
 June 25, 2026
May 27, 2026 by Julie Wokaty “Alone We Are Powerless; Together We Are Strong”  — Global Platform Workers Convening in Nairobi, Kenya  

By David Schilling, Senior Advisor, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, and Anousha P., Project Assistant, Global Platform Workers Solidarity Project    The Global Platform Workers Solidarity Project, of which the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and Equidem serve as the co-secretariat, convened a group of over 100 platform worker-organizers, national trade union center representatives  and […]
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  • Advancing Worker Justice
  • Impacts of Digital Technology on Workers’ Rights
 May 27, 2026
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March 19, 2026 by Julie Wokaty 2026 Shareholder Proposals Challenged by Companies

As many of us are aware, in late 2025 the SEC’s Division of Corporate Finance announced it was withdrawing from its role of providing staff guidance for companies seeking relief from a potential SEC enforcement action. For decades, companies sought that relief by filing a “No Action” letter with the staff, and asking for assurance […]
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  • Shareholder Rights and SEC Policy
 March 19, 2026
February 18, 2026 by Julie Wokaty Nathan Cummings Foundation Files Suit to Prevent Axon from Excluding Shareholder Proposal on Political Spending Transparency

NEW YORK, NY — Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) announced earlier this week that it has filed a lawsuit against Axon Enterprise, Inc. (AXON) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The suit seeks to prevent AXON from excluding NCF’s shareholder proposal requesting greater transparency around the Company’s political spending. This filing by […]
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  • Corporate Political Accountability
  • Corporate Political Spending
  • Litigation
  • Shareholder Rights and SEC Policy
 February 18, 2026
February 13, 2026 by Julie Wokaty ICCR Statement in Response to the Overturning of the Endangerment Finding

On February 12, 2026 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officially rescinded the Endangerment Finding, which dates back to 2009 and has underpinned the ability of the federal government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, vehicles, and other heavy emitters. This action will severely compromise the federal government’s ability to respond to the threat […]
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 February 13, 2026

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