All Human rights articles – Page 6
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Engagement guideWhistleblowing: why and how to engage with your investee companies
Transparency International defines whistleblowing as the disclosure or reporting of wrongdoing. We use a broad framing of whistleblowing mechanisms to include those arrangements that encourage employees, customers and suppliers to speak up and share information on activities that violate a company’s ethical code of conduct, its legal and regulatory requirements ...
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WebinarPRI Digital Forum: Americas - Breakout 1B: Human rights
This session will focus on identifying and remedying human rights violations in private equity portfolios.
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PodcastSpotlight on human rights: what are they and how do they impact investors?
In this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI’s Nikolaj Halkjaer Pedersen engages in a dynamic human rights-focused conversation with Chris Newton, Executive Director of Responsible Investment at IFM Investors and Akiko Sato, Human Rights Lawyer and Japan Programme Coordinator at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
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PodcastSpotlight on the Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge
In this episode of the PRI podcast, CEO Fiona Reynolds speaks with Dr Bronwyn King AO, Founder, Director and CEO of Tobacco-Free Portfolios. They discuss the Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge, the progress the initiative has made since its launch, the impact of COVID-19, links between human rights and tobacco, big issues ...
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Case studyInvestor Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative
Case study by Church of England Pensions Board and the Council on Ethics of the Swedish National Pension Funds
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Case studyIncreasing Crehana’s reach in low-income populations
Case study by Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures LLC - “ALIVE Ventures” and Crehana Education
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Case studyEngaging ICT companies to better protect children from sexual exploitation online
Case study by Christian Brothers Investment Services
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Case studyAnalysis of the impact of an investment portfolio on society and on SDGs
Case study by VidaCaixa
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Blog postWhat institutional investors need to know about the ‘S’ in ESG
By Fiona Reynolds, CEO, PRI and John Ruggie, author of the UN Guiding Principles and professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
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News and pressPrinciples for Responsible Investment sets new human rights expectations for investors
World’s leading proponent of responsible investment sets clear expectations for investors in new report, outlining why and how to consider human rights in investment activities.
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Thought leadershipWhy and how investors should act on human rights
Just as for all businesses, institutional investors have a responsibility to respect human rights.
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PodcastInvesting in the living wage
In this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI’s Nabylah Abo Dehman speaks with Sam Hepher from the Living Wage Foundation and ShareAction’s Rachel Hargreaves.
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WebinarConsultation on PRI’s Human Rights Framework for Institutional Investors
The responsibility of institutional investors to respect human rights is reflected in international human rights standards, and constitute a universal, normative expectation by employees, beneficiaries, clients, governments, and wider society.
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ArticleTheme 3: Covid-19, privacy rights and cyber security risks
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have introduced measures around bio-surveillance, censorship and misinformation that could have significant impacts on privacy rights.
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ArticleTheme 2: supporting suppliers and building resilient supply chains
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the lack of resilience of supply chains in respect of labour rights during a large-scale disruption.
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ArticleTheme 1: protecting workers’ rights through the Covid-19 crisis
The COVID-19 crisis is primarily a public health emergency, but its consequences have shown that it is much more than that. While there is a sense that the pandemic is a collective phenomenon, the stark reality is that it hits the most vulnerable hardest.
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ArticleCovid-19 and human and labour rights concerns
In March 2020, the PRI launched two discussion forums on the PRI collaboration platform to collect investor experiences relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PRI Web PageCollaborative engagement on responsible sourcing of cobalt
This PRI-supported collaborative engagement on responsible cobalt sourcing ran between 2018 and 2020 with companies in the electronics and automotive sector. A total of 46 institutional investors, representing approximately US$6.4trn in assets under management, engaged with 16 companies on their cobalt sourcing practices.
