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December 14, 2021 by ICCR The 2022 Amazon Proposals

1. Proposal: Address Wealth Inequality through an Ownership Culture. Lead Proponent: Corporate Governance  “Amazon.com should address inequality and democracy by helping establish an ownership culture within the firm and in the larger society,” said James McRitchie of CorpGov.net. “This proposal asks Amazon.com to include a simple matrix, ideally using EEO-1 classifications, to report the stock ownership and associated voting power awarded to each […]
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 December 14, 2021
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December 14, 2021 by ICCR Shareholder Proposals Appearing on the 2022 Amazon Proxy Ballot

Proposal #5: Amazon 401(k) Climate Alignment. Vote: 9.1%. Lead Proponent: As You Sow “Amazon does a great job on climate in their operations with 100,000 new electric vehicles and data centers powered by renewables. Why is it that Amazon employees who are invested in their company retirement plan are profiting from companies burning down the Amazon?” said Andrew Behar, As You Sow CEO. […]
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 December 14, 2021
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November 21, 2021 by Julie Wokaty Blog Post: The Promise of COP26

By Christina Cobourn HermanProgram Director, Climate Change & Environmental JusticeNovember 2021 This week the majority of the world’s governments will gather in Glasgow, Scotland for the 26th “Conference of the Parties” – COP26 – to advance the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement ratified in 2015. Our hopes for this summit – and the stakes the world […]
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 November 21, 2021
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September 21, 2020 by Julie Wokaty BRT’s Climate Policy Statement: A positive step that must be matched by real action

Christina HermanICCR Program Director, Climate & Environmental Justice Investors appreciate the Climate Policy Statement by Business Roundtable issued in advance of Climate week. From the conflagrations in the West to the inundations in the South, our United States are being ravaged by the unrelenting and undeniable impacts of climate change. The fact that the BRT’s 200-plus prominent […]
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 September 21, 2020
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September 21, 2020 by Julie Wokaty Blog Post: Congress Takes Positive Step to Protect the Uyghur People

Friends, In my 25 years on the staff of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) engaging companies on human rights concerns including labor rights and working conditions in global supply chains,  I’ve seen serious human rights abuses in many locations: a factory in Guatemala where supervisors were sexually harassing young women workers; a factory in China […]
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 September 21, 2020
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April 21, 2020 by Julie Wokaty The Collateral Damage of Covid-19 in the Bangladesh Apparel Sector

 By David Schilling, ICCR Senior Program Director Tomorrow is the 7th anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh where 1,138 garment workers were killed and over 2,500 injured.  This tragic, yet avoidable event and one of the worst workplace disasters in modern history exposed the human rights risks of outsourcing apparel manufacturing to factories with inadequate […]
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 April 21, 2020
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November 5, 2019 by Julie Wokaty Blog Post: Proposed SEC Rule Changes Threaten to Decrease Corporate Accountability

In Bow to Trump Administration’s Deregulatory Agenda, Proposed SEC Rule Changes Threaten to Decrease Corporate Accountability and Diminish Shareholders’ Voice By ICCR CEO Josh Zinner The party-line vote today by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to significantly limit the ability of investors to file shareholder resolutions is yet another action by the Trump Administration […]
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 November 5, 2019
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December 22, 2015 by Julie Wokaty COP21: A Giant Step Forward, or Just More Words?

By Christina Herman Most of us cheered at the conclusion of the COP21 in Paris, and breathed a great sigh of relief that this latest effort to reach global consensus on addressing climate change didn’t end in stalemate. For the first time, the world has a global agreement on climate change that involves nearly all […]
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 December 22, 2015

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