Press Releases

Read the Statement. On one-year anniversary, global investor initiative reminds companies of their corporate responsibility to protect, respect and remediate human rights violations throughout their supply chains. New York, NY – Thursday, April 24th, 2014 – A global coalition of 134 institutional investors representing over $4.1 trillion in managed assets and led by the Interfaith […]

Call for Reporting on Bank’s “Financed Emissions”

New Technologies and Business Models like the Medicines Patent Pool that Challenge Conventional Pricing, R & D and Intellectual Property Paradigms Seen as Critical if Pharmaceutical Industry is to Meet Health Care Needs in Developing and Emerging Markets New York, NY – Monday, April 7th, 2014 – In commemoration of World Health Day 2014, today […]

Coke’s Guidance Prohibits the Payment of Recruitment Fees to prevent Bonded Labor 

In Light of Recent EPA Settlement, Shareholders are “Troubled” by Company Statements About its Water and Community Impacts.

Citing unique health risks of tobacco, investors support carve-out in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) commercial agreements; express concerns for the potential of TPP to limit access to medicines.

In light of recent wave of scandals, management commits to comprehensive reporting of steps taken to mitigate risk.

Choice to Place Public Health above Corporate Profits Heralded as Watershed Moment for Retail Pharmacy Sector by Long-Term Shareholders NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Wednesday, February 5, 2014 – In a move investors hope represents a “tipping point” for the retail pharmacy sector, CVS Caremark announced today that it would end tobacco sales in its chain […]

The largest chocolate producer in North America on track to source 100% certified cocoa by 2020     NEW YORK, NY, Friday, January 31st, 2014– Today members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and investors in the Hershey Company were heartened by its announcement  that, as of year-end 2013, 18% of its cocoa was […]

We applaud the decision taken by the DC District Court decision on July 23rd to uphold the implementing rules for Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act and to dismiss the lawsuit filed against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, and the Business Roundtable. As […]