Worker and human rights top issues for ICCR members for 2024 AGMs

Why is voting proxy ballots so important?  The shareholder proposal process allows both large and small shareholders to alert corporate boards and the investor community to their concerns and to request timely action on emerging, or neglected, issues. A key element of process allows shareholders who meet certain criteria to submit proposals for inclusion in […]

A group of Home Depot (HD.N), opens new tab investors is asking the company to review its partnership with surveillance firm Flock Safety and state how its data is used and shared with law enforcement, following reports by an independent media outlet that the vendor’s data has been used in Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigations. Home Depot […]

Authors Sehr Khaliq is the Director of Program Evaluation, and Timothy Smith is the Senior Policy Advisor at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). This post is based on their ICCR report. New York City Comptroller Brad Lander[i] recently urged three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock, Fidelity, and PanAgora because of “inadequate” […]

Request comes amid growing public alarm about corporate consolidation in the healthcare sector. New York, NY, December 2025 — A coalition of faith- and values-based investors has filed a new shareholder resolution calling on UnitedHealth Group Inc. (“UNH”) to publish a report analyzing and describing the healthcare consequences of its corporate acquisition strategy. The request […]

New York, NY, December 19, 2025 – This week the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) released a new report analyzing the 2025 proxy voting activity of more than 15 large asset managers. This latest report comes at a time of mounting asset owner scrutiny of how managers are providing oversight for material risks connected […]

Why is voting proxy ballots so important?  The shareholder proposal process allows both large and small shareholders to alert corporate boards and the investor community to their concerns and to request timely action on emerging, or neglected, issues. A key element of process allows shareholders who meet certain criteria to submit proposals for inclusion in […]

Let’s be honest, the Swedish Church’s decision to re-evaluate how it manages its vast forests – a chunk of land bigger than some European countries – feels a bit like a royal family arguing over the inheritance. It’s a surprisingly complex situation bubbling up from a seemingly simple question: Should a centuries-old institution focused on […]

Debates around tech accountability tend to focus on ethics, regulation, and corporate behavior. Yet, finance, easily one of the most powerful forces shaping any industry, particularly the ever-growing and capital-intensive technology ecosystem, remains largely invisible to most. Especially in today’s world of ‘broligarchies,’ finance remains one of the primary levers of influence, determining what technologies are […]