Other Updates

Earlier this month ICCR’s Laura Berry traveled to Rome to take part in an invitation-only 2-day seminar inside Vatican-city which discussed poverty & the global economy, and our assumptions about economic theory. The papers and statements that emerged from the seminar are available via the link below. http://www.iustitiaetpax.va/content/giustiziaepace/en/archivio/news/2014/comunicato-stampa—seminario-di-alto-livello-in-vaticano-organi1.html  

One of the observations made by Archbishop Tomasi on the importance of continuing the push for implementation of the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights was: “Despite the significant efforts made to implement the Guiding Principles, key challenges remain: these include broadening dissemination, reaching scale in implementation, building trust between stakeholders and overcoming […]

From today’s letter: “We write today to applaud the U.S. State Department’s decision to downgrade Thailand to Tier 3 in the 2014 Global Trafficking in Persons Report. This decision is justified and an important step in international efforts to persuade the Royal Thai Government to begin making the difficult, but necessary, changes needed to bring […]

“Working Values” is the Spring, 2014 edition of ICCR’s Corporate Examiner magazine (Vol. 38, No. 3).

New report from the Christian Science Monitor. Findings include: the biggest clash between corporations and SRI activists in 2014 is on climate change. SRI experts analyze environmental, social and governance risks for corporations in emerging markets. Seamus Finn of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and ICCR Executive Director Laura Berry are both featured.

New report from 3iG makes the case that if negative screening is all that you do, you are missing a major opportunity. Read the full report on ISSU.  

A coalition of 18 groups, including faith-based organizations, unions, environmental and labor rights organizations have signed on to a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry recommending that Thailand be downgraded to a “Third Tier” category in this year’s State Dept. Trafficking in Persons Report.  The report rates each country with Third Tier being the […]

To investigate to what extent and how are investors taking aspects related to children’s rights into account in their policies and practices, GES cooperated with the Global Child Forum, a Swedish not-for-profit foundation, to survey 195 asset owner signatories to the PRI. This resulting report was launched on April 11, 2014. The exercise will be […]

Today marks one year since the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh claimed 1,138 lives. This anniversary serves as a reminder of the human rights risks inherent in outsourcing apparel manufacturing to factories with inadequate safeguards to protect workers. Whether we are investors or consumers, NGOs or government officials, we must appeal to apparel brands […]

Members of ICCR filed 196 resolutions on a range of social, environmental and governance issues for the 2014 proxy season. They have formally withdrawn 58 of those, the majority in exchange for reaching significant agreements with the companies. Below, we highlight a number of these successful withdrawals, as well as some key early resolution votes. […]